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Mount Erebus, Antarctica

author: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix

reference: t-antar-00008

Image Size 300 DPI: 35 * 41 cm

Mount Erebus, the world's southernmost historically active volcano, overlooks the McMurdo research station on Ross Island. The 3794-m-high Erebus is the largest of three major volcanoes forming the crudely triangular Ross Island. Continuous lava-lake activity with minor explosions, punctuated by occasional larger strombolian explosions that eject bombs onto the crater rim, has been documented since 1972, but has probably been occurring for much of the volcano's recent history. The image was acquired December 31, 2013 by the ASTER sensor on NASA's Terra satellite. It covers an area of 63 x 73 km.

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2013 - ANTARCTICA - ASTER - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ICE - MOUNT EREBUS - SATELLITE IMAGE - SNOW - TERRA - VOLCANO - VOLCANOLOGY -