Amazing volcano photo shows shock wave

Amazing volcano photo shows shock wave
Image from space shows several phenomena that occur early in eruption

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Great Photo!!

fabulous picture and amazing how it is a small mushroom cloud and you can definitely see how the other clouds moved out of the way in a perfect circle.

I'd have loved to hear the COMs between the ISS and Houston "There appears to be a mushroom-like cloud rising up from NorthEast of Japan."
Bet that rattled a few nerves for some moments

I saved that picture to my albums, what an amazing sight that was. Life on the space station has its rewards for certain.

Wow, that is just amazing

I wonder if they have more photos, and am off to hunt and see.

Thanks for bringing this to us.

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Peace

That's an AWESOME picture, quadruple points for finding it! Has anyone noticed all of the low level earthquake activity on RSOE the past five days? The global map does not work but the European map was nuts two nights ago, it was a solid line of quakes across Eurasia ending in the Atlantic.

It may of raised a few heartbeats but trust me the systems in place (some satellites can't remember the names) will of known instantly whether that was a nuke or not - they tell instantly by the flash signature - a nuke has a very short (nano second) intense flash followed by a slower growing one. A nuke would stand out like me whenever I try to hide in the female changing rooms

wow that is spectacular; imagine what the view must have been like for the astronauts who took the picture.

as said above, this pics getting saved to the hard drive.



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is it me or does the international spacestation always find themselves in the right place to capture some good shots?

or is their orbit just happen to to go over this eruption? and nyc?

why a shock wave thought?

could it not just be heat or chemicals released from the volcano?

just curious if there are other explanations because the photo does not technically show a shock wave, at least not in its entirety; to enable the conclusion given to be drawn.

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maby they know more to what really happened. too true always in the right place at the right time

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I agree. It doesn't even look like a shockwave to me..

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I believe Alaska just had a Quake a few hours ago...

I'm guessing that when they say shockwave, they are referring to the way the atmosphere shoved up--making that circular hole in the cloud cover.

Wow, amazing pic. Although I'm a little curious about this...



I've seen pictures and video years ago showing lightning caused by volcanic plumes. It's been a well known fact that eruptions can cause lightning, or was that just me?

Or was this pic from years ago, and they're only just releasing the article now. Nasa up to their usual tricks again

Yeah same thing here, seen pics of lightning in ash clouds for years, one eruption at Mt Ruapehu here in New Zealand in I think 95 had some spectacular lighting shots.

No doubt our good ol' 'friends' at NASA drip feeding us babies...

It's obviously swamp gas. j/k

I am just amazed at how perfect the photo is. This was taken from space, right? Now explain to me why we can't get photo's this clear from the unseen side of the moon.

Hey that's funny, that looks just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What's even funnier is that both those places have active volcanos that exploded at almost the same times the bombs did. Odd coincidence I guess or great timing.

Peace

Just a couple images of shock wave's for reference

It does seem to be misleading, but in the original article, the phrase "pictures for the first time" is an active link that leads to:
www.livescience.com... which says:


I don't know if that means the array was set up in Sarychev Peak.