Ash Cloud Over Europe
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Ash Cloud Over Europe, A photograph from NASA’s Terra satellite showing a volcanic
ash plume blowing from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland past the Faroe Islands toward northern Scotland and Scandinavia on Thursday.
Updated | 6:23 p.m. As my colleagues Nicola Clark and Liz Robbins report, a high-altitude cloud of ash drifting south and east from an erupting volcano in Iceland has closed airports in northern Europe. Flights have been canceled because volcanic ash contains silicates, or glass fibers, which can melt inside jet engines, causing them to flame out and stall.
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