Bagana – June 2, 2022
Bagana, located on Bougainville Island in Papau New Guinea, is a 1,855 meter (6,086 foot) tall volcano with its first eruption as far back as 1842 according to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program. This image of smoke plumes rising from Bagana was captured by Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager 2 on May 28, and was shared as Image of the Day on June 2.
