Tonight, while looking for some animated satellite images of the incoming snow storm (yes … there is a big one coming to Tahoe and Utah this weekend!) I came across the OSEI – Operational Significant Event Imagery – site at NOAA. They have a cool page that is the OSEI Image of the Day … and today they are showing a picture of the ash plume coming off a volcano in Chile!

One of the amazing things in this particular photo is the size of the ash plume, and how evident it is as it crosses a significant portion of Argentina. This does not even appear to be a very large volcano, nor a large eruption. I have to admit … I didn’t know there was an active eruption in Chile right now.

I love to see our government publish information like this, as it is very educational, and heck … we’re paying for it! Another thing that I noticed that appears to be pretty cool is that the link they provide appears to be a static link that will not change … even when the image is updated each day. If this is true, then a different photo will be showing up next to this paragraph tomorrow … and the next day … 🙂

I guess that we’ll all find out tomorrow!