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Satellite images from NASA have captured the underwater eruption of the Kavachi Volcano in the Pacific Ocean’s Solomon Islands.
One of the most active submarine volcanoes in the ocean, scientists found in a 2015 expedition to the volcano that there were two species of sharks living in what has been dubbed a “Sharkcano.”
Hammerheads reside there as well as microbial communities that thrive on sulfur.
The summit of the Sharkcano is estimated to lie 65 feet below sea level, with its base at a depth of 0.75 miles.
The images, acquired on May 14, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9, show a plume of discolored water – usually made up of particulate matter, volcanic rock fragments and sulfur – as it’s emitted from the volcano.
Other satellite data revealed discolored water around Kavachi on several days in April and May…
