As has been said multiple times, those images are available. I posted one this morning, someone else psoted one this afternoon.
After a post mentioning the BBC I just went and checked their website. They have a large satellite image of the ash as their primary image. What more do you want?
And the reason most science is not explained publically is because 99.999% of people don't care. Just about every science major project in the last 10 years will have an informative website detailing their objectives. Just about every library in every country in europe has access to scientific journals whereby anyone can see just what the scientists are doing. Again, what more do you want?