May 6, 2008 9:43 AM

One more Chaiten Image

NASA captured this great image of the ash plume from Chaiten, which has reached 15-km into the atmosphere. Following this eruption, I’m sure there will be a lot of work into why no one had any clue an eruption of this magnitude was about to occur.

NASA captured this great image of the ash plume from Chaiten, which has reached 15-km into the atmosphere.

Chaiten from space

Following this eruption, I'm sure there will be a lot of work into why no one had any clue an eruption of this magnitude was about to occur.

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