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Shiveluch volcano eruption in Russia smothers nearby villages in ash

The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on 11 April sent plumes of volcanic ash many kilometres into the air and could affect flights

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Alamy Live News. 2PM361B This handout photo released by the Head of the Ust-Kamchatsky municipal district Oleg Bondarenko on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, shows volcanic ash covering the ground in Ust-Kamchatsky district after the Shiveluch volcano's eruption on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russian far east. Shiveluch, one of Russia's most active volcanoes, erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash 20 kilometers into the sky and covering broad areas with ash. (The Head of the Ust-Kamchatsky municipal district Oleg Bondarenko via AP) This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

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This map of Venus shows every volcano we know about on its surface

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A map of Venus that shows the distribution of volcanoes varying in size from less than 5 kilometres in diameter to more than 1000 kilometres in diameter.

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Vent on Venus is clearest sign yet the planet is volcanically active

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Venus - 3D Perspective View of Maat Mons Photojournal: PIA00106 Source: NASA/JPL Published: May 10, 2004 Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat Mons at an elevation of 3 kilometers (2 miles) above the terrain. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons. The view is to the south with the volcano Maat Mons appearing at the center of the image on the horizon and rising to almost 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the surrounding terrain. Maat Mons is located at approximately 0.9 degrees north latitude, 194.5 degrees east longitude with a peak that ascends to 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the mean surface. Maat Mons is named for an Egyptian Goddess of truth and justice. Magellan synthetic aperture radar data is combined with radar altimetry to develop a three-dimensional map of the surface. The vertical scale in this perspective has been exaggerated 10 times. Rays cast in a computer intersect the surface to crate a three-dimensional perspective view. Simulated color and a digital elevation map developed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory and is a single frame from a video released at the April 22, 1992 news conference.
Magnificent photograph captures eruption of Fagradalsfjall volcano

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Magnificent photograph captures eruption of Fagradalsfjall volcano

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Climate cooling effect of volcanoes is bigger than we thought

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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone supervolcano contains twice as much melted rock as thought

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Mauna Loa eruption interrupts key record of atmospheric CO2

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This image is from a temporary thermal camera located on the north rim of Mauna Loa's summit caldera. The temperature scale is in degrees Celsius up to a maximum of 500 degrees (932 degrees Fahrenheit) for this camera model, and scales automatically based on the maximum and minimum temperatures on the caldera floor and not the whole frame, which sometimes results in the rim (bottom of image) looking saturated (white). Thick fume, image pixel size and other factors often result in image temperatures being lower than actual surface temperatures. https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/mtcam-mokuaweoweo-caldera-thermal-northwest-rim 28/11/22 05:00 local time

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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984

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Lava spews from the peak of Merapi volcano during its effusive erruption asw seen from Turgo village, Sleman, Yogyakarta province, on May 19, 2022. (Photo by Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Climate change could cause heavier rainfall on volcanoes

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Incredible photos reveal underwater volcanic activity near Sicily

Panarea, a volcanic island near Sicily, Italy, is the site of plenty of underwater volcanic activity – which has now been documented as part of a decade-long photographic exploration of the oceans

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A gas eruption in the submerged crater of the island of Panarea

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Pluto has a huge field of bumpy ice created by massive volcanoes

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Fire of Love review: An intimate account of life, death and lava

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Is Ol Doinyo Lengai the strangest volcano in the solar system?

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Black lava from this bizarre volcano could reveal Earth's deep secrets

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