Satellite Shows Ash Plume From Russian Volcano Streaking Across the Pacific
The Sheveluch volcano ash plume (in brighter green) was lofted as high as 33,000 feet by early Tuesday morning as it traveled over extreme western portions of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. (NWS-CWSU, Oakland, California) At a Glance Ash was pulled into the Pacific from an erupting volcano in Russia.Satellites watched the plume of gas travel across the northern Pacific.Ash can be harmful to planes. Satellites captured ash being whisked away from a Russian volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula and across the...