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Only a few satellites orbit near the poles, high enough to catch Iceland's fiery lava fountains in action. Here are some of the best of the bunch.
New country
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Iceland's Holuhraun eruption seen in a combined before-and-after radar image from the TerraSAR-X satellite.
Fresh glow
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Infrared views of the Bardarbunga volcanic eruption. The false color image was snapped Sept. 6 by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite. The photo seen here combines shortwave infrared, near-infrared and green light.
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Spying sputtering lava
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A zoom view of the previous Landsat image highlights glowing lava against Holuhraun's black sands and glacier-fed river channels.
Fire and ice
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A natural color version of the same image of Iceland's volcanic eruption, captured Sept. 6 by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.
Noxious gas
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The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite caught a long trail of sulfur dioxide gas spewing from the eruption on Sept. 5.
Roiling hotspot
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The hot lava peeks through stormy clouds in another MODIS image from the Terra satellite. The image was shot Aug. 31, the day the eruption kicked into high gear.
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Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well as general science topics. Becky was a science reporter at Live Science and The Pasadena Star-News; she has freelanced for New Scientist and the American Institute of Physics. She earned a master's degree in geology from Caltech, a bachelor's degree from Washington State University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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