On Monday, a volcanic eruption just two miles northeast of a town in Iceland opened up a cavernous fissure in the Earth, spewing lava dozens of feet into the air in what looks like a scene straight out of hell.
The eruption comes nearly a month after the town, Grandavik, was evacuated as mounting volcanic activity battered the region with earthquakes, leaving cracks in the Earth’s surface.
Now, images shared by NASA Earth Observatory show the spectacle from space using temperature readings taken before and after the eruption on December 18. The images were captured using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the NOAA-20 satellite.
“What you’re seeing in these images is the very high temperatures of the active lava flows compared to the surrounding land and clouds,” Simon Carn, a volcanologist at Michigan Technological University, told NASA Earth Observatory.“The darker lower-temperature areas appear to be some topography that the lava […]
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