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Plumes Over the Kamchatka Peninsula

Aerial view of plumes rising over a volcano on a snow-covered landscape
Source: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jeff Schmaltz, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response.
Published: January 11, 2018

Sitting along the northwest rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Kamchatka is one of the most volcanically active parcels of land in the world.

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