NASA Sending UAV To Restudy Kilauea Volcano.

The Wired UK (4/5, Brown) reports, "More than a year after first surveying the destructive Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, Nasa has sent its data-collecting drone UAVSAR back to the Big Island to assess how it shaped and shifted the Earth's surface." The Jet Propulsion Laboratory last sent the drone back in January 2010. "Nasa will now repeat its previous journey, mimicking the 2010 flight paths to an accuracy of five metres" in order to examine the changes. "The agency has previously used the UAVSAR technology to measure the temperate ice caps of Iceland and the boreal forests of Canada in 2009, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Haiti earthquakes in 2010."