Picture taken on 23 May 2011 at around 10:00 AM GMT shows a man walking a street in the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, in the south of Iceland. Airspace over Iceland was closed 23 May 2011 after the North Atlantic country‘s most-active volcano continued to spew ash. The plume above the Grimsvotn volcano was Monday estimated to be between 8-10 kilometres, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The volcano began to erupt 21 May 2011, and the plume was initially more than 20 kilometres high. EPA/VILHELDM GUNNARSSON ICELAND OUT
Picture taken on 23 May 2011 at around 10:00 AM GMT shows a man cleaning his car from volcanic ashes in the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, in the south of Iceland. Airspace over Iceland was closed 23 May 2011 after the North Atlantic country‘s most-active volcano continued to spew ash. The plume above the Grimsvotn volcano was Monday estimated to be between 8-10 kilometres, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The volcano began to erupt 21 May 2011, and the plume was initially more than 20 kilometres high. EPA/VILHELDM GUNNARSSON ICELAND OUT
An EUMETSAT handout shows the ash cloud (reddish colour) from the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland. The photo was taken by the AVHRR Instrument on Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite on 23 May 2011 11.49 UTC. Airspace over Iceland was closed on 23 May 2011 after the North Atlantic country's most-active volcano continued to spew ash. The plume above the Grimsvotn volcano was 23 May estimated to be between 8-10 kilometres, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The volcano began to erupt 21 May, and the plume was initially more than 20 kilometres high. EPA/EUMETSAT / HO MANDATORY CREDIT: «Copyright: EUMETSAT 2011» HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
A NASA handout natural-color satellite image dated 22 May 2011 and made available 23 May 2011, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite, showing the towering ash plume at 1:00 p.m. local time as Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano erupted. Beneath the ash plume, clouds cover much of the scene. Lingering snow is visible beneath the clouds to the northeast (upper left). Brown ash covers a portion of the Vatnajokull Glacier near the Atlantic coast (lower right). The eruption sent an ash plume 12 miles (20 kilometers) high and closing Keflavik Airport, Iceland’s largest. Ash fell on much of Iceland, with some areas pitch black at midday on 22 May. EPA/NASA, GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response Team/HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY
An EUMETSAT handout shows an image taken by the AVHRR Instrument on Metop-A on 22 May 2011 12:07-12:10 UTC of the Grimsvotn, a highly active volcano in Iceland. The image shows the ash cloud (reddish colour). Airspace over Iceland was closed on 23 May 2011 after the North Atlantic country‘s most-active volcano continued to spew ash. The plume above the Grimsvotn volcano was 23 May estimated to be between 8-10 kilometres, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The volcano began to erupt 21 May, and the plume was initially more than 20 kilometres high. EPA/EUMETSAT / HO MANDATORY CREDIT: «Copyright: EUMETSAT 2011» HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
An SAS Boeing 737 aircraft takes off behind Iceland Airs stranded Boeing 757 aircraft named after the volcano Eyjafjallajokull parked at a remote stand at Arlanda airport north of Stockholm, Sweden, 23 May 2011. The Eyjafjallajokull aircraft is parked at Arlanda, not able to return home, since the ash cloud from the volcano Grimsvotn closed the airports on Iceland 22 May. EPA/Johan Nilsson SWEDEN OUT
Aerial view taken 21 May 2011 shows the eruption of the volcano Grimsvotn in the south-east of Iceland. Iceland closed its main international airport 22 May 2011 following the eruption of a volcano in the south-east of the country, aviation authorities said. EPA/EGILL ADALSTEINSSON
