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Volcanic Quartet

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Apr 11, 2013
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2013-04-10 00:00:00
April 10, 2013

Four of the volcanoes erupting on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula are visible in this NASA satellite image. From north to south: Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Tolbachik, and Kizimen. The natural-color image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on April 10, 2013.

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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC.

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