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This place in time: The Mount St. Helens Story

May 072010

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With the volcano in the news and the 30th anniversary of Mount St. Helens, I thought this topical.

Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry. Fire and Aviation Management Staff. (1986)

ARC Identifier 13504 / Local Identifier 95.206 1984

This place in time: The Mount St. Helens story

Recounts through reenactments, personal recollections, and documentary narration, the earth-changing event and aftermath of the May 18, 1980, volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwest Washington. The film represents the work of dozens of both professional and amateur cinematographers and still-photographers. The film leaves the viewer with a positive feeling that the devastated area will someday be beautiful again during the course of the earth-shattering and earth-healing process.

Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland From Space

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Apr 152010

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Courtesy: NASA. NASA images by Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the EO-1 team. NASA/JPL/EO-1 Mission/GSFC/Ashley Davies

On March 20, 2010, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano (pronounced “AYA-feeyapla-yurkul,”) awakened for the first time in 120 years, spewing still-active lava fountains and flows. That day, a NASA “sensor web” — a network of sensors on the ground and aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite, alerted researchers to this new volcanic “hot spot.” The eruption was detected by autonomous “sciencecraft” software aboard the satellite, which is known as EO-1.

Sciencecraft software enables the spacecraft to analyze science data onboard to detect scientific events and respond by sending alerts, producing scientific products and/or re-imaging the event.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-117