Mount Erebus on Ross Island

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 19 January 2016 from 11:25:50 to 11:26:44 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 19 January 2016 at 13:03:35 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 24 January 2016 from 11:33:56 to 11:34:50 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR EW acquired on 24 January 2016 at 14:48:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 12 December 2016 at 20:45:12 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Polar, cryosphere, ice pack, science station, glacier tongue, volcano, hotspot, lava lake, Ross sea, Antarctica
Fig. 1 - S1 EW (24.01.2016) - hh,hv,ndi(hv,hh) colour composite - McMurdo Sound, Drygalski ice tongue at left & Ross island at right.
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Fig. 2 - S1 IW (19.01.2016) - Ross volcanic island; Erebus glacier tongue shows at bottom, above McMurdo station & Scott base.
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Fig. 3 - S1 IW (24.01.2016) - Mount Erebus is a basaltic shield volcano lying over a volcanic hotspot.
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Aboard HMS Erebus (Greek god of darkness) and HMS Terror, Ross expedition discovered Ross Island in Antarctica in 1841. It named its two major volcanoes after its two ships.
Fig. 4 - S2 (12.12.2016) - 12,11,2 colour composite - It has been erupting since 1972 and presents a persistent lava lake.
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In this land of adventurers, of darkness and of horrific tales, they didn't find aeon-old cyclopean cities but the then-erupting 3794m high Mt Erebus.
Fig. 5 - S2 (12.12.2016) - 8,4,3 colour composite - Its crater emits some smoke as a remainder of its activity.
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It is the southernmost active volcano on Earth and second highest volcano on Antarctica.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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