No matter how amazing a photographer you might be, it’s unlikely you’ll ever have the opportunity to shoot anything nearly as awesome as a volcano erupting from space. However, the crew of the International Space Station have upped the stakes on what was probably already Earth’s coolest job by doing just that.
On June 12 the Sarychev Volcano on the Kuril Islands in the Northeast of Japan went up, and the crew of the ISS were fortunate enough to be floating past at the time.
Ash from the eruption, which continued over several days, has been detected 2,407 kilometers east-southeast and 926 kilometers west-northwest of the volcano.
A quick-thinking astronaut (although it’s unlikely there’s many dim-witted astronauts) snapped the shot with their Nikon D2XS with a 400mm lens (which truly is big enough to see from space).
For more details and other photographs likely to make you go ‘Cor!’ have a look around the NASA site.
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