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Tonga Islands Submarine Volcanic Eruption

Boston.com's The Big Picture blog (LPB's inspiration) has posted 12 big images of the undersea eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano.A submarine volcanic eruption occurred in the Tonga Islands of the South Pacific in mid-March 2009. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of volcanic activity on March 18, 2009...NASA Earth Observatory