NASA discovered a unique island, in just 7 days its size became 6 times bigger

NASA: The US space agency NASA (NASA) saw a small island shortly after a volcano erupted in the southwest Pacific Sea near Australia. According to reports, in the beginning of September, the Home Reef volcano in the central Tonga island started spewing smoke, ash and lava, which changed the color of the water around it.

Photos taken from satellite

NASA’s Earth Observation Workshop has reported that a new island emerged on the surface of the water only 11 hours after the eruption of this volcano. This monitoring workshop has also taken photographs of this island with the help of satellite.

6 times in 7 days

According to NASA’s press release, this island soon grew in size. On September 13, researchers, together with the Geological Service of Tonga, described the area of ​​the island as 4000 square meters (about 1 acre) and 10 meters (about 33 feet) above sea level, but on September 20, the researchers gave information. That the size of this island has increased to 24000 square meters i.e. about 6 acres.

Such islands are ephemeral

NASA says that the island is built on the Home Reef seamount in the central Tonga Islands and may not be here forever. NASA further explained that “this island is formed due to submerged volcanoes in the sea and such islands exist only for a short time. However, sometimes their life span is few hours, few days, months or even few days”. could be the year.

Further information has been given by NASA that due to the 12-day continuous eruption of the nearby Late’iki Volcano, an island was also formed in 2020 but then it merged back into the water only in 2 months. Whereas in the year 1995, an island formed due to this volcano remained for 25 years.

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