--- title: Watch a Volcanic Eruption From Space description: The video shows smoke and steam rising from the eastern flank of the Napau Crater on Hawaii's Mt. 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But when those 23 seconds are captured by a high-definition camera aboard the International Space Station, they matter a lot—if only because they can give the 7.1 billion of us who will never go into space a perspective on the planet that the few who do leave it get to see all the time. In this case, that perspective is provided by a camera placed aboard the station by [Urthecast](https://www.urthecast.com/), a Canadian company that makes planetary images available to businesses, developers and just plain gawkers. The video shows smoke and steam rising from the eastern flank of the Napau Crater on [Hawaii’s Mt. Kilauea](http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80091&mc%5Fcid=478922c228&mc%5Feid=b10218b948), which began erupting on January 3, 1983, and has continued, over the course of 60 different phases of eruption through a series of different vents, ever since. There’s no telling when Kilauea will quiet down. 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