Plumes Over the Kamchatka Peninsula

Aerial view of plumes rising over a volcano on a snow-covered landscape
January 11, 2018
CreditNASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jeff Schmaltz, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response.
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Sitting along the northwest rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Kamchatka is one of the most volcanically active parcels of land in the world.