{"id":2082,"date":"2009-11-27T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2009-11-27T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:02:39","slug":"nasa-satellite-captures-image-of-russian-volcanos-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/nasa-satellite-captures-image-of-russian-volcanos-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA satellite captures image of Russian volcano&#8217;s smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume coming from the Bezymianny volcano on the the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/EXID25803\/images\/2009-11-27_064745.jpg\" alt=\"NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume coming from the Bezymianny volcano on the the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA&#39;s Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume coming from the Bezymianny volcano on the the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is a relatively active area for volcanic activity, like much of the rest of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Bezymianny volcano in the east-central part of the peninsula is the smaller of three neighboring volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p>Bezymianny was thought to be extinct until it erupted from 1955 to 1956. Prior to that, it had experienced a period of 1,000 of dormancy. The 1956 eruption was comparable in size to the Mount Saint Helens eruption in 1980 and resulted in a horseshoe shaped crater that has since been filled by other, smaller eruptions and pyroclastic flows.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Novebmer 25, 2009, NASA\u2019s Terrra spacecraft captured an image of a smoke plume emanating from the volcano. Using the craft\u2019s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), the plume is clearly seen as is its shadow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-25803-Natural-Disasters-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Russian-volcano-smoke-plume-seen-from-space\"><strong>For a larger image of the volcano, please visit the Natural Disasters Examiner.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is a relatively active area for volcanic activity, like much of the rest of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Bezymianny volcano in the east-central part of the peninsula is the smaller of three neighboring volcanoes. Bezymianny was thought to be extinct until it erupted from 1955 to 1956. Prior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/nasa-satellite-captures-image-of-russian-volcanos-smoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA satellite captures image of Russian volcano&#8217;s smoke<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[224,295,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}