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NASA Snaps Photos of Underwater 'Sharkcano' Erupting

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NASA's Operational Land Imager-2, located aboard the Landsat 9 satellite, took striking snapshots of the submarine volcano, called Kavachi, erupting earlier this month. The volcano is located about 15 miles south of Vangunu Island, part of the Solomon Islands east of Papua New Guinea. It earned its nickname after a 2015 expedition found two species of sharks, along with active microbial communities, living within the volcano's crater.

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