Satellite images show the huge area of Icelandic countryside that has been scorched and coated in cooled lava over the four recent volcanic eruptions.
The increasing extent of land charred by the volcanic eruptions on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula can be seen in NASA images taken from space.The volcano erupted for the fourth time on March 16, having erupted previously on December 18 last year, then again on January 14 and on February 8.The most recent eruption is still ongoing, pouring lava out of a 2-mile-long fissure and scorching large areas of the nearby region coming close to the boundaries of the town of Grindavík.
Barriers constructed near the town successfully diverted much of the new lava away, though one road was covered by the molten rock.These eruptions have not created a large cloud of ash like the one that caused major disruptions to flights after the 2010 eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, instead releasing plumes of gases including water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide.
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