Undersea Eruption – May 17, 2022
That streak of green at the bottom of this image is not a sea monster, but a plume of superheated water from an undersea eruption. This plume is located south of Vangunu Island (seen at the top of the picture), in the Solomon Islands. The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program says that the volcano, named “Kavachi,” is 66 feet (20 meters) below the surface of the ocean, and first started releasing plumes as far back as October 2020. This photo was taken by the Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 on May 14, and was Image of the Day for May 17.
