Image of the Day, August 8,2019

This imagery shows a vast brown dust cloud of volcanic ash that exploded so powerfully that this volcanic ash rose higher than the clouds in the atmosphere and can be detected from space. The The white color in this image are the clouds. Infrared Bands were used by Terra MODIS Satellite to gathered the size of volcanic ash erupted from a previously inactive Raikoke Volcano in Russia. The volcanic ash is so vast the NPP VIRS satellites used by NASA can see the brown ash from space, because this brown volcanic ash erupted past the cloud covers in the atmosphere. 

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