Zhupanovsky_Dzenzursky_2013.jpg


Description
English: Many characteristics of a low-viscosity lava flow are visible in this image of Zhupanovsky and Dzenzursky volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The image was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite on September 9, 2013. In the image, younger lava flows appear grey, while older flows are covered by green vegetation. The exact ages of the flows are unclear, but the eruptions that produced them likely occurred during the past few thousand years. Distinctive lava levees are visible along the edges of many of the younger flows. These features form as lava cools and hardens along the edges or top of a flow while the center of a flow still advances.
Date acquired September 9, 2013
Source http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82427&eocn=home&eoci=iotd_title
Author NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the USGS Earth Explorer.
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