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| Keywords: High Resolution View of Mount Oyama , Image of the Day DVIDS763133.jpg en Eruptions of Mount Oyama progressively covered the volcano's slopes with more and more ash over the last half of 2000 This pair of images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ASTER shows the volcano on July 17 2000 left and September 3 2000 right The false-color images combine infrared red and green light as red blue and green colors respectively Ash is dark gray vegetation appears red and water is blue-gray In the image from September 3 steam is being vented from the volcano's caldera The volcano has again been venting steam ash and large amounts of sulfur dioxide an estimated 20 to 50 kilotons per day in February 2001 /Newsroom/NewImages/images php3 img_id 4702 See this previous SeaWiFS image of Miyakajima Scientists believe most of the emitted sulfur dioxide is from degassing magma within the volcano The 8-km-wide 5-mile island is actually a low-angle stratovolcano rising some 818 meters 2 686 feet up out of the Pacific Ocean about 240 km 150 miles south of Okinawa and 320 km 200 miles east of Taiwan Many now refer to the island as Miyakejima and the volcano's summit as Mount Oyama NASA Identifier aster_oyama_ash 2011-06-25 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/763133 763133 2012-10-19 19 11 Mount Oyama ja 雄山 Miyake-jima JP PD-USGov Miyakejima Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
