Photograph Identification: P-44828
Kliuchevskoi Volcano, RussiaThis photograph of the eruption ofKliuchevskoi volcano, Kamchatka, Russia was taken by space shuttle Endeavourastronauts during the early hours of the eruption on September 30, 1994. Theash plume, which reached heights of more than 18 kilometers (50,000 feet), isemerging from a vent on the north flank of Kliuchevskoi, partially hidden bythe plume and its shadow in this view. The photograph is oriented with northtoward the bottom, for comparison with the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-BandSynthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) image (P-44823) that was acquired a fewdays later. Near the center of the photo, a small whitish steam plume may beseen emanating from the growing lava dome of a companion volcano, Bezymianny.
![[KLIUCHEVSKOI (OPTICAL)]](KLIUOPTI.GIF)