Sarychev Peak on Matua Island is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan. Astronauts took this photo of an eruption on June 12. The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance; the surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption. Credit: NASA/ISS/Earth Observatory
To: NormsRevenge
Guess you wouldn’t want to be flying through that
2 posted on
06/22/2009 9:06:28 AM PDT by
fso301
To: NormsRevenge
Fascinating photo. Interesting that they are calling it a shockwave. I would’ve guessed it was some kind of thermal effect.
3 posted on
06/22/2009 9:06:36 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: NormsRevenge
Cool pic if of one of mother nature’s little carbon footprints.
6 posted on
06/22/2009 9:12:25 AM PDT by
DogBarkTree
(Support The American Tea Party)
To: NormsRevenge
7 posted on
06/22/2009 9:13:55 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(TATBO = "Throw All The Bums Out")
To: NormsRevenge
How ya gonna stop these carbon spewing behemoths Algore
Maybe cap them, sell those credits to another moron like yourself?
To: sig226
I thought you might like this.
11 posted on
06/22/2009 9:23:38 AM PDT by
AZ .44 MAG
(A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
To: NormsRevenge
Great photo. I wonder whose girlfriend blew up when her guy came home smelling of booze?
12 posted on
06/22/2009 9:33:03 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: NormsRevenge
I would have liked to have seen what a photo of Mt. St. Helens looked like from space on May 18, 1980... :-)
There is evidence that Mt. St. Helens “punched up in the sky” — initially — on that eruption (after it changed from the horizontal to the vertical, that is), because of an isolated ash-fall in and around the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, from that eruption. That’s a circle of ash, all by itself, centered roughly on Tulsa, Oklahoma, while the main area of ash went to the north and east....
After the eruption “settled down” (so to speak) it continued in its ferocity for the next nine hours, continuously and without interruption...
14 posted on
06/22/2009 9:41:35 AM PDT by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: NormsRevenge
The low pressure rarefaction zone behind the advancing shock wave causes water droplets to condense out of the moisture laden tropical air producing the "Wilson Cloud Chamber" effect.
15 posted on
06/22/2009 9:45:44 AM PDT by
Pistolshot
(The Soap-box, The Ballot-box, The Jury-box, And The Cartridge-Box ...we are past 2 of them.)
To: NormsRevenge
16 posted on
06/22/2009 9:47:12 AM PDT by
Cooter
To: NormsRevenge
Not the first mushroom cloud over japan...
To: NormsRevenge
reminds me to say...
NUKE BERKELEY
20 posted on
06/22/2009 10:29:38 AM PDT by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: NormsRevenge
Well, there goes this year’s carbon sequestration.
21 posted on
06/22/2009 10:35:35 AM PDT by
VeniVidiVici
(Gasoline has gone up 60% since the Osama inauguration.)
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25 posted on
06/22/2009 1:38:03 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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