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| Saturday May 24 2003 08: 52 AM
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Tiny Anatahan Island is blanketed in ash.
Its only inhabitants--thousands of feral goats and wild pigs--have perished. A churning plume of brown smoke reaches 4 miles into the air.International Space Station (ISS) science officer Ed Lu saw it first.
"Looks like a volcano of some sort on that small island," he said on May 11th when the space station soared over the Pacific Ocean. The eruption had begun less than 12 hours earlier, and Ed Lu--who really wasn't looking for volcanoes--spotted it before any of NASA's Earth observing satellites. (The ability to notice the unusual is a key advantage of humans in space.)
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