New NASA radar looks to monitor volcanoes and earthquakes from space
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 10:10
in Astronomy & Space
Instead of looking up to the sky for bright bursts of fiery color, a research team spent Fourth of July 2018 peering down at fiery globs of molten lava from a sky-diving airplane. Bolted to their plane was a new NASA instrument designed to detect each time the volcano took a breath, as its caldera swelled and deflated.