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Remembering El Chichon

Thirty years ago, an eruption in Mexico devastated a community and altered the climate.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Erik Klemetti and Mike Carlowicz.

Published March 29, 2012
Data acquired March 11, 1986

Sources:
Landsat 5
Landsat 5 > TM