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Lusi mud flow seen from space

author: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix

reference: t-asjav-00003

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 17 cm

On May 29, 2006, a mud volcano began erupting in a densely populated area in eastern Java, Indonesia. In the months that followed, the Sidoarjo mud flow (also known as the Lapindo mud flow, or Lusi) showed no signs of slowing, and mitigation efforts such as dropping chains of concrete balls down the crater proved ineffective. By June 2008, the massive mud lake spawned by this eruption had smothered a dozen villages and displaced some 30,000 residents. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired these images on November 11, 2008, (right) and August 24, 2004 (left). In these false-color images, red indicates vegetation, pale blue and green indicate bare ground and/or fallow fields, and black indicates water. The mud from the volcano appears charcoal gray.

Keywords for this photo:

2004 - 2008 - ASIA - ASTER - COMPARISON - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ERUPTION - FALSE COLOR - INDONESIA - JAVA - LUSI - MUD - SATELLITE IMAGE - SIDOARJO - TERRA - VOLCANO -