Mt. Pinatubo 10th Anniversary Perspective (Stills)

  • Released Tuesday, June 12, 2001
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This recent false color Landsat-7 image, from January 2001, shows Mt. Pinatubo as it stands today. The caldera is seen in the middle of the image, underneath clouds. Ten years after the blast, vegetation is re-growing on the slopes of the mountain (in green). Streams of mud, called lahars, (resulting from ash from the eruption mixing with water- seen as the lighter sediment) continue to flow down the sides of the mountains, as well as channels of water (darker streams). However, as vegetation grows back, the ash becomes more stabilized and less likely to form the destructive lahars.

A side-by-side comparison of two images of Mt. Pinatubo taken ten years apart

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS003

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS003

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS041

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS041

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS043

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS043

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS

Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide image from Shuttle Mission STS

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS046

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS046

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS050

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS050

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS059

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS059

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS080

Image of Mount Pinatubo from Shuttle Mission STS080

False color Landsat (542) image of Mount Pinatubo taken January 2001

False color Landsat (542) image of Mount Pinatubo taken January 2001

False color SIR-C image of Mount Pinatubo after eruption.

False color SIR-C image of Mount Pinatubo after eruption.

False color SIR-C image of Mount Pinatubo after eruption with a major lahar highlighted.

False color SIR-C image of Mount Pinatubo after eruption with a major lahar highlighted.

False color SIR-C image of Mout Pinatubo before eruption.

False color SIR-C image of Mout Pinatubo before eruption.

False color SIR-C image of Mout Pinatubo before eruption with a major lahar highlighted.

False color SIR-C image of Mout Pinatubo before eruption with a major lahar highlighted.

The tons of ash, seen here in great quantity on the western slope, mixed with heavy rainfall to create destructive streams of mud, capable of moving at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. This false color image was taken from the Spacebourne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) instrument onboard the Space Shuttle in April of 1994 and highlights the ash in purple.

The tons of ash, seen here in great quantity on the western slope, mixed with heavy rainfall to create destructive streams of mud, capable of moving at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. This false color image was taken from the Spacebourne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) instrument onboard the Space Shuttle in April of 1994 and highlights the ash in purple.

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See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/pinatubo_20010618/index.html

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 12, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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