A New Time-lapse of an Island Forming in Tonga

Narration: Dr. James Garvin

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Hi, I'm Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist and NASA Goddard

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and I'm interested in how volcanoes work, evolve and tell us about

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Earth and Mars.

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And the birth and, what we thought we be the death of

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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, in the Southwest Pacific

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island nation of Tonga

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has been captured in timelapse photography from space for the first time

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adding three demensions so we can watch the landscape

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respond to the forces of Planet Earth

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and see it in its different life stages

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sort of like we watch our children grow up

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here we see this island evolving to its present state

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against all odds, surviving nearly three years

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against the battering of the Pacific Ocean.

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This is the lifestyle of an island evolving in space and time

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and we study these to understand Earth

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and to extend that understanding to Mars.

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