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Aqua Satellite Captures Another Ash Plume From Iceland Volcano

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by Staff Writers
 Washington DC (SPX) May 06, 2010
 NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland on May 4 at 14:00 UTC (10 a.m. EDT), and captured a visible image of its ash plume.

Despite the abundance of clouds in the area, the plume appears as a thin line of darker clouds streaming from the center of the image toward the southeast.

The bright white areas on Iceland is snow and ice cover.



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