The son of the famous Krakatoa volcano surprised everyone at the end of last week, when it became active. Now NASA and the United States Geological Survey have released these images of the eruption as seen through the eyes of the Landsat 8 satellite.
The photo was taken on Monday, April 13. It is one of the last eruptions that sent columns of ash and water vapor into the tropical skies and invaded the turquoise waters with lava flows.
“The natural color image has overlapping infrared data collected by one of the Landsat 8 instruments. These measurements highlight hot spots that could be molten rock,” he describes in a statement Kathryn Hansen Earth Observatory.
Anak Krakatau is located in the Sonda Strait between the great Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The name of the volcano translates as “the son of Krakatoa” and for good reason: it emerged from the cauldron created from the devastating Krakatoa eruption in 1883, which killed 36,000 people and darkened the skies around the world for several years. .
Fortunately, the Anak Krakatau has not unleashed anything equivalent to the scale of its parent. But he’s been pretty active lately.
In recent years, the volcano “has shown small eruptions periodically,” he explained. Verity Flower, a volcanologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “However, it has the capacity for destructive activity that leads to powerful tsunamis.” For example, an eruption of this nature occurred in December 2018, when a tsunami killed hundreds of people.
Source: Space.com
