acquired February 18, 2015
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Note: I'm placing this here at the beginning because it won't load right at the end. This was the friend who sent me this image. She and her boyfriend had traveled in January to the Kona side, Hilo Side, Hawi Side and Two Step snorkeling side of the islands with me while we were all over there traveling and snorkeling together. Also, one day while I wasn't feeling well they and my friend's grown son and girlfriend flew over and they they visited Volcanoes national park as well while I stayed at our condo. I have been there many times before but decided not to drive about 8 to 10 hours there and back that day to all the locations they were going to visit within a 12 to 15 hour period. begin note:
Note: I'm placing this here at the beginning because it won't load right at the end. This was the friend who sent me this image. She and her boyfriend had traveled in January to the Kona side, Hilo Side, Hawi Side and Two Step snorkeling side of the islands with me while we were all over there traveling and snorkeling together. Also, one day while I wasn't feeling well they and my friend's grown son and girlfriend flew over and they they visited Volcanoes national park as well while I stayed at our condo. I have been there many times before but decided not to drive about 8 to 10 hours there and back that day to all the locations they were going to visit within a 12 to 15 hour period. begin note:
Fred, just looked at your blog. Quote from site below. ASTRONAUTS
took the photo, camera positioning was very intentional, not automated
satellite photography.
“Astronauts
aboard the International Space Station oriented the camera specifically
to capture this panorama of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano with long swirls
of volcanic gases wafting to the west. Astronauts are trained to take
images of hard-to-see atmospheric haze by shooting obliquely to enhance
visibility.
end note.
The following was written before receiving this email.
This is an image likely taken by satellite looking down at the Big Island of Hawaii and Maui illustrating the VOG (haze from the Volcanic activity on the big Island of Hawaii.
The Vog is listed up as the light blue stuff right above Oahu that begins out of the volcanoes and volcanic activity to the left of the island of Hawaii in this picture.
Slowly the big Island of Hawaii is growing this way over thousands of years. Even Midway Island was once created by this same volcanic vent as the Pacific tectonic plate moves slowly northwards. All the Hawaiian Islands too were created by this one volcanic vent on the left now of the big island of Hawaii as the Pacific tectonic plate moves inexorably northwards over thousands and thousands of years.
The location of this image is at:
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85456&eocn=home&eoci=iotd_readmore
The distance between Honolulu and the big island of Hawaii is: 171.96 miles as the crow flies. So, if you add this to the distance between Midway and Honolulu below you have some idea of how far islands created by the volcanic vent on the big island of Hawaii have already traveled northwards on the Pacific plate as it has moved over thousands and thousands of years.
The distance between Midway Island and Honolulu on Oahu, Hawaii is:
The distance between Honolulu and the big island of Hawaii is: 171.96 miles as the crow flies. So, if you add this to the distance between Midway and Honolulu below you have some idea of how far islands created by the volcanic vent on the big island of Hawaii have already traveled northwards on the Pacific plate as it has moved over thousands and thousands of years.
The distance between Midway Island and Honolulu on Oahu, Hawaii is:
| U.S.A. - Hawaii - Honolulu | Tue 10:18 AM | 2113 km | 1313 miles | 1141 nm |  ESE |
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