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    • Title Mount Longonot
    • Released 07/08/2013 9:00 am
    • Copyright Planetary Visions/NERC-COMET/JAXA/ESA
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      The Envisat satellite found that the dormant Mount Longonot in Kenya rose by 9 cm from 2004 to 2006. Tectonic activity such as the movement of magma underground may have caused this deformation of the surface above.

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    • Id 295769

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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Mission Envisat
    • Location Africa
    • Keywords Volcanoes , Tectonic , Synthetic Aperture Radar , InSAR

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