Chile's Chaití©n Volcano from Space Relief Hammerslough

Hammerslough

2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member STS-129 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station

Photographed by Gordon Parks in May-June 1943 on 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inche negatives

only lower resolution source data are available

as a color lithograph

Chile's Chaití©n Volcano from Space Relief HammersloughChile's Chaitn Volcano had been dormant for more than 9,000 years when it erupted in May 2008. In the months that followed, the volcano remained active, releasing plumes of steam and volcanic ash, coating local vegetation, clogging waterways, and inundating the nearby town of the same name. On January 19, 2009, an explosive dome collapse occurred at the volcano, according to a bulletin from the Volcanism Blog. A thick plume of ash and steam blew from