VOLCANO ISLAND FROM SPACE It might look like a close-up of a lily-pad, but these are amazing shots of the Manam Volcano, just off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea - from space. The active volcano released a faint plume of smoke on 28 June, 2009 and the The Advanced Land Imager onboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite captured it. White clouds hover over the volcano’s summit, but even they couldn't hide the wonder of volcanic activity. Manam is one of Papua New Guinea’s most active volcanoes, and it has occasionally caused casualties, including 13 deaths from a pyroclastic flow in December 1996, and four deaths from a mudflow in March 2007. Large eruptions in late 2004 forced the evacuation of the entire island.