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The Digital Universe Atlas project allows Emmart and others at the Hayden Planetarium, to incorporate data from specific places and times. Here, then, we see satellite imagery displayed inside the planetarium's dome, showing the smoke trailing from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull on May 15.
Click here to read the related backstage story on the science behind New York's Hayden Planetarium. And click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.
July 13, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET
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