{"id":22297,"date":"2011-06-07T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=22297"},"modified":"2011-06-07T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:00:18","slug":"images-of-grimsvotn-volcano-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/images-of-grimsvotn-volcano-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn Volcano Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21 of this year, the Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn volcano in South-East Iceland erupted, sending 12 kilometre high plumes into the atmosphere, creating an ash cloud that rose up to 20 kilometres, and was accompanied by several earthquakes. As a result, the 2011 eruption is 10 times larger than the 2004 eruption and the strongest in the last century.<\/p>\n<p>Below, are images from the eruption and of the ash plume that ended up disrupting air travel in Iceland, followed shortly by Greenland, Scotland, Norway, Svalbard and a small part of Denmark, Northern Ireland, northern England and Northern Germany.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22300\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/5750017807\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22300\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5750017807_be931197b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA MODIS satellite image acquired at 05:15 UTC on May 22, 2011 shows the plume casting shadow to the west.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22301\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/5750017777\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22301\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5750017777_eb12bb1174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn eruption at 13:00 UTC on May 22, 2011 captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA&#039;s Aqua satellite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22302\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/europeanspaceagency\/5781943118\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22302\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5781943118_ea4d7e1b38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ash plume from the Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn volcano as seen on 23 May at 12.00 GMT by the MERIS instrument on board ESA&#039;s Envisat satellite. Although the image shows the plume drifting southwest, models predict that most of the ash will be blown northeast over the Arctic Ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22303\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/5750537703\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22303\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5750537703_7333d55d1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA satellite captures ash plume from Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn Volcano, Iceland on May 23, 2011 at 12:05 UTC. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22304\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/europeanspaceagency\/5803190139\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22304\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5803190139_7ce1af66b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Envisat image, acquired on 24 May 2011, shows a large cloud of ash north-east of Scotland that has been carried by winds from Iceland\u2019s Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn volcano about 1000 km away. The Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn volcano, located in southeast Iceland about 200 km east of Reykjavik, began erupting on 21 May for the first time since 2004. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/5754711329\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22305\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5754711329_503f70715e.jpg\" alt=\"NASA image acquired May 24, 2011 at 11:10 UTC.  Ash plume from Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn Volcano over the North Sea.\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/sets\/72157626798179012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Goddard Photo and Video<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/europeanspaceagency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Agency<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=39a193ec-0cb3-4b83-9d53-58733ce897e8\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below, are images from the eruption and of the ash plume that ended up disrupting air travel in Iceland, followed shortly by Greenland, Scotland, Norway, Svalbard and a small part of Denmark, Northern Ireland, northern England and Northern Germany. 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