This
true-color image was taken by the MISR camera looking straight
down toward Earth. The Golfo de Honduras is at the north edge
(top) of the image and the Pacific Ocean is at the south.
Differences in greenness are apparent along the east edge of
the observed area, between Honduras (to the north) and Nicaragua
(to the south). Runoff from the land is visible in the Golfo
de Fonseca, about midway along the southern coastline. A chain
of active volcanoes extends along the coast from the Golfo de
Fonseca southeast to the edge of the image. San Cristobal, a
volcano at about the middle of the chain, erupted on 25 February.
A thin plume from San Cristobal, blown to the west and out over
the Pacific Ocean, is barely visible. Data for all channels
were mapped to a Space Oblique Mercator map projection to
create this 275-m resolution color composite.
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