Bright, burning lava rising from a crack on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is so abundant that it’s quickly noticeable to orbiting satellites.
The image above, which is about 3 and a half miles throughout, was developed utilizing information obtained by the Landsat 9 satellite on November 24th. If you appearance thoroughly at the left-most extension of the streaming lava you can make out a couple of turquoise-colored areas. This is Iceland’s renowned Blue Lagoon, a geothermal dayspa that bringsin travelers from around the world.
Iceland’s Blue Lagoon geothermal dayspa. (Credit: Bryan Ledgard through Wikimedia Commons)
Lava from the continuous eruption neighboring has surged throughout a parking lot at the medspa and scorched a service structure.
The eruption is the newest in a series of 7 that started in December of2023 It was declared on the night of Nov. 20 by a swarm of earthquakes. About 5 hours lateron, the Suomi NPP satellite gotten the nighttime image of Iceland listedbelow. The light streaming up from the lava streams to the satellite sensingunit was so extreme that it appears even brighter than the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.
A nighttime image of Iceland recorded by the Suomi NPP satellite on Nov. 20, 2024 exposes the scorching brilliant light of lava from the present volcanic eruption — brighter even than the Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
Here’s a various variation of the Landsat 9 satellite proving more of the surrounding landscape of the Reykjanes Peninsula:
Lava coming from an eruptive crack near Iceland’s Stóra Skógfell peak is seen in this image obtained by the Landsat 9 satellite on November 24,2024 The Blue Lagoon is noticeable to the north of the town of Grindavík. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
The Landsat image integrates a natural color scene with an infrared signal to aid expose the lava’s heat signature. A plume of gas consisting mainly of sulfur dioxide is likewise seen streaming from the lava.
Iceland lies along a giant joint in Earth’s crust running approximately down the middle of the North and South Atlantic Oceans. The joint is significant by a ~10,000-foot-high undersea mountai