Some satellite-aided detective work spots an underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific.

NASA Satellites Pinpoint Volcanic Eruption : Image of the Day

earthobservatory.nasa.gov 13 Aug '12, 11pm

Some satellite-aided detective work spots an underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific.

View Image Comparison View Both Images Midway on its 800-kilometer (500-mile) voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an intriguing report: a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ocean covered with floating pumice. Soon after, the ship was sailing through a mass of buoyant volcanic rocks. Up to two feet thick, the pumice raft was about half a nautical mile (1 kilometer) wide, and “extended sideways as far as the eye could see,” wrote Rebecca Priestley, a science writer aboard the ship. Although the lightweight, gas-filled pumice posed no threat to the Canterbury, enough got stuck in the water filters to provide samples for analysis. Though the pumice was spread over a vast area of the South Pacific, the origin was a mystery to the crew of the ship. An undersea volcano several hundred kilometers to the north of th...

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@bojanfurst » 31 Aug '12, 6pm
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@BlueyHuey » 16 Aug '12, 7am
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@BlueyHuey » 16 Aug '12, 7am
RT @rsimmon: @RKPriestley Here's the source of your pumice raft: [link] & [link] Thanks for the first-hand account!
@korecho_dai » 15 Aug '12, 3am
＠: …a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ocean covered with floating pumice. Soon after, … [link]
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@lanceanz » 14 Aug '12, 5pm
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@PlanetDiary » 14 Aug '12, 4pm
Pumice raft floating off New Zealand coast is from undersea eruption. [link]
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@rsimmon » 14 Aug '12, 3pm
@RKPriestley Here's the source of your pumice raft: [link] & [link] Thanks for the first-hand account!
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RT @LauraByrneStory: Wondered about the floating pumice last week? Well some NASA detective work has answered the question: [link]
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@paulmwatson » 14 Aug '12, 1pm
#SCIENCE: The eruption, the plume and the floating pumice island. [link] /via @LauraByrneStory
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Some satellite-aided detective work spots an underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. [link]
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Working independently of GNS, volcanologist Erik Klemetti and NASA visualizer Robert Simmon examined a month’s... [link]
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RT @keijimoriiVet: 今回大きく噴火したNZ沖の海底火山の位置が衛星から特定されました。 [link]
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@nakatukatomohar » 14 Aug '12, 1am
RT @keijimoriiVet: 今回大きく噴火したNZ沖の海底火山の位置が衛星から特定されました。 [link]

NASA Satellites Pinpoint Volcanic Eruption : Image of the Day

Some satellite-aided detective work spots an underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific.

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