March 28 2007
Mail Bag: Bird’s Eye View Of Ruapehu Lahar
posted by Ana Samways at 12:38 pmA reader flicked us the link to NASA’s Earth Observatory, which has kindly taken an aerial snap of the Ruapehu lahar from this year and compared it to an earlier image from 2002. “Sobering to think if the 1953 Tangiwai disaster had happened in 2007 we’d see the scene from above, like this,” says our online lahar tourist.
On March 18, 2007, one such slurry burst out of Mount Ruapehu’s caldera and flowed down the side of the volcano. Nine days later, on March 25, 2007, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image of Mount Ruapehu and its new lahar.
Read more here.