Chile's Calbuco Volcano Turns Brazil's Skies an Eerie Purple

The Calbuco eruptions aren't just creating a spectacle in southern Chile, with their lightning-streaked mushroom clouds and reverse-terraforming of the land into an ashen, "gray desert." Thousands of miles away they're showboating in Brazil, too, turning sunsets a weird, neon shade of eggplant.

The volcano erupted last Wednesday after more than four decades of silence. Now the sulfurous aerosols it coughed into the atmosphere are making it to the rest of South America. You can see them smudged all over the continent and ocean in this NASA image from Sunday: