Hi, I'm Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist and NASA Goddard
and I'm interested in how volcanoes work, evolve and tell us about
Earth and Mars.
And the birth and, what we thought we be the death of
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, in the Southwest Pacific
island nation of Tonga
has been captured in timelapse photography from space for the first time
adding three demensions so we can watch the landscape
respond to the forces of Planet Earth
and see it in its different life stages
sort of like we watch our children grow up
here we see this island evolving to its present state
against all odds, surviving nearly three years
against the battering of the Pacific Ocean.
This is the lifestyle of an island evolving in space and time
and we study these to understand Earth
and to extend that understanding to Mars.