14 DAY TRIAL // They might look like alien landscapes or bizarre paintings, but these images that NASA scientists released just a couple of days ago are, in fact, space views of volcanoes in remote Russia.
The volcanoes, all crammed together in the country's Kamchatka Peninsula, were photographed by the crew aboard the International Space Station just as the satellite was journeying over them.
In a commentary accompanying the images, NASA researchers describe this part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia as one of the most active volcanic regions on our planet.
“The Kamchatka Peninsula boasts one of the highest concentrations of volcanic features on Earth, including over 300 identified volcanoes (29 considered active), hot springs, and geysers,” they add.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station obtained these views of the Russian volcanoes a few weeks ago, on May 4. At that time, the Klyuchevskoy volcano was coughing out ash and Steam. Hence, its slopes appeared dark to the crew.
Russia's Klyuchevskoy volcano is estimated to have formed around 6,000 years ago. It is the highest active volcano in all of Eurasia and doesn't look like it plans to renounce its throne anytime soon.
On the contrary, geologists say that, since it formed millennia ago until present day, the volcano has very rarely gone through quiet periods, and even these were over after just a short while.
