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NASA Releases New Images of Red Sea Island After Volcanic Eruption Appears Silent
This may be the new Red Sea island in its final form, if the volcanic eruption has indeed stopped.
The volcanic eruption that birthed a Red Sea Island in December appears to have stopped, according to an email from NASA Goddard's Newsroom in Greenbelt, Md. on Tuesday.
Goddard released its first images of the island on Dec. 23, four days after local news reports said fisherman saw an eruption in the sea on Dec. 19, with lava rising up to 90 feet in the air, according to NASA.
On Jan. 9, Jeffrey Schmaltz, a NASA Goddard senior support scientist who analyzes satellite data, said it appeared there was some island building still going on at the new volcanic island near Rugged Island in the southern Red Sea — and the island could get bigger.
On Jan. 15, NASA captured images from the Advanced Land Imager aboard the Earth Observing-1 showing what it called "a newborn island" left behind after the eruption appears to have stopped. The newborn island is now part of the Zubair Islands, located about 40 miles (60 kilometers) off the coast of Yemen, according to NASA Goddard.
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