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Ambrym Volcano Spews Ash Near Australia

Vanuatu Nation (HDW) April 27, 2004 - In the South Pacific Ocean east of Australia, the 83 islands that make up the Vanuatu nation are dotted with countless craters from active and extinct volcanoes. Among the most dangerous is the almost-permanently active Ambrym Volcano. In this pair of images captured on April 27, 2004, a large plume of volcanic ash is blowing westward from the volcano, which appears at the center right edge. (full article...)

Australia (HDW) September 19, 2004 - Several large, smoky fires were burning in Northern Australia on September 14, 2004. A satellite controlled by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center acquired the above picture on September 14th. (full article...)

Dry Seaeson in Australia Leads to Many Fires

Australia (HDW) June 17, 2004 - Early dry season fires (red dots) were burning across Arnhem Land in Northern Territory, Australia, at the time of this image captured on June 17, 2004. Fires were also detected on Melville Island, to the northwest of the mainland across Van Diemen Gulf, which is filled with streamers of tan-colored sediment. (full article...)

Australia (HDW) September 6, 2004 - Fires, marked in red, are scattered around Australia's Northern Territory in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from September 3, 2004. While many of these fires are likely part of a planned, controlled burning program, others are also wildfires. Many of the fires send clouds of blue-grey smoke into the sky; the smoke floats up, then in an upper layer of the atmosphere, winds begin carrying the smoke off to the northwest. (full article...)