Posted by Chris on 3/28/2009, 11:20 pm, in reply to "Google Earth question for Chris or anyone else who uses it"

The AVO one is quite fun. You can play a month worth of earthquakes. Zoom in close to Redoubt and select only "Earthquakes" in the "Daily Earthquakes" folder. Then on the slider that appears, hit play. Very fun to watch all the little quakes pop up. As for imagery, you only get the same thing in GE as in Google Maps for this one. Imagery from 2005. But, it is in 3D in Google Earth when you have the terrain loaded, so that is always fun. Then watch all the earthquakes appear using the AVO feature noted above. Here are two satellite pictures of the ash plumes: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37615 But I don't know where to find a recent real picture from space. With all the ash and other clouds, you might not be able to see much as you can with some of the derived products like the link above. Here is an image from 2000 with some interesting things posted a little over a month ago when Redoubt had been acting up a little: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36991