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US-India Satellite Captures Time-lapse Video of Volcanic Eruption

Photo: NASA News

What happened

In this animation, frames of NISAR data from December 2025 to August 2026 show the spread of lava from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a volcano pair on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. In the image, the lava field appears brighter in the foreground than the surrounding surfaces. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Like tendrils on a vine, lava spreads out from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a…

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