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Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2007. Pagan Island, Northern Mariana Islands, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station. According to scientists, the Mariana Islands are part a volcanic island arc — surface volcanoes formed from magma generation as one tectonic plate is overridden [...]

Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the Central American Volcanic Arc, or CAVA. The volcanoes result from [...]

Nevado Coropuna, Peru is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 25 crew member on the International Space Station. Nevado ("snowy" or "snowy peak" in Spanish) Coropuna is the highest volcanic peak in Peru — the summit elevation is 6,377 meters above sea level. Rather than being a single stratovolcano, Coropuna is a volcanic [...]

Laguna Lake Open Space, San Luis Obispo, Calif. In the background are ancient volcanic peaks. This beautiful is about a 5 minute drive from downtown San Luis Obispo. By: docentjoyce

Island of Ischia, Italy is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. The island of Ischia is located approximately 30 kilometers to the southwest of Naples, in the western Bay of Naples (part of the Tyrrenhian Sea). While the island’s rocks are volcanic in origin, much of [...]

Santorini Volcano, Greece is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. According to scientists, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the past 10,000 years occurred approximately 1620 BC on the volcanic island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. This view illustrates the center of Santorini Volcano, [...]