Above and Beyond: Mount Cleveland

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory.

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA except:

·       Aerial photo of Mt. Erebus: Jeanie Mackinder

·       Ground-based photo of Mt. Erebus: Dr. Eric Christian / NASA

·       Sea creature illustration copyright The National Library of Israel, Shapell Family Digitization Project _and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography – Historic Cities Research Project

·       Ground-based photos of Eyjafjallajökull: David Karnå

·       Eyjafjallajökull video footage: Ágúst Guðbjörnsson / agustgudbjornsson.com

·       EO-1 satellite illustration: ATK

·       Fimmvörðuháls fissure photo: Henrik Thorburn

·       Simulation of ash spreading over Europe: Nina Kristiansen, Sabine Eckhardt, NILU

·       Eyjafjallajökull panorama: Henrik Thorburn

·       Mount St. Helens aerial photo: USGS

 

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Mount Cleveland, Alaska, USA

 

Ash pours briefly from Mount Cleveland in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in this picture taken on May 23, 2006, from the International Space Station.

 

A red circle around Mt. Cleveland in a satellite image. Text, The event was short.

 

Within two hours, the plume had detached completely from the volcano and drifted away.

 

A red circle around the ash cloud.

 

The ash cloud reached 20,000 feet, nearly 4 miles above sea level, before vanishing into the atmosphere.