Mount St. Helens emits a plume of steam and ash from an area of new crevasses in the crater glacier south of the 1980-86 lava dome. The event lasted approximately 25 minutes and created a pale-gray cloud that reached an altitude of almost 10,000-ft. The image taken at an altitude of 27,000-ft aboard a US Navy (USN) P-3C Orion aircraft Patrol Squadron 1 (VP-1), Screaming Eagles, Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Washington (WA)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Mount Saint Helens
State: Washington (WA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Scott Taylor, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/10/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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