14 DAY TRIAL // Less than a week ago, on August 31, fountains of lava blasted out of the ground in Iceland. The eruption occurred in the Holuhraun field, which is part the Bárðarbunga volcanic system, and was documented by NASA satellites.
This past September 4, the Administration released several images showing this volcanic eruption as seen from space. Of these images, one is available next to this article. You can find the other two below.
The first of these images was obtained by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. Mind you, the actual sight of the volcanic eruption was not this colorful.
Thus, lava only appears bright red in this picture due to the fact that the image was created by piecing together a natural-color photo taken on August 27 and an infrared night view from September 1.
Of the two images below, both of which were obtained with the help of NASA's Aqua satellite, the first is a false-color one, meaning that a combination of infrared and visible light was used to document the eruption's hotspot.
The second image, on the other hand, is a natural-color one. In this picture, the lava appears black and, dare I say it, not at all as impressive as in the other two pictures.
According to scientists monitoring this volcanic eruption in Iceland, lava is currently still emerging from the ground. As of September 3, the field it had come to create covered an area of about 7.2 square kilometers (2.8 square miles).
