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English: This natural-colour satellite image of the summit of Mauna Loa — overlaid with 100-meter contour lines, helps illustrate why volcanic emissions from the summit rarely reach the observatory.
  • The observatory is located on the northern slope of the mountain, 6 kilometres away from and 800 meters lower than the summit.
  • Most of the time, the prevailing north-easterly trade winds prevent volcanically contaminated air from reaching the observatory. Only on a small percentage of nights do the winds become light and southerly, pushing volcanic emissions downhill to the observatory.
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Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author Robert Simmon
  • This image was captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. ALI data provided by the EO-1 team.

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