Nov 20
Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool.
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Nov 18
In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered
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In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered a volcano lurking beneath Antarctica. [Nature Geoscience]
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Nov 14
Think you’re cool cause you can blow o’s when you smoke? Mother Nature has still got you beat. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy took a little break from erupting to blow O-shaped smoke rings hundreds of feet in diameter to make every smoker and pot head in the world jealous. Just look at it. It’s perfect!
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Aug 07
Where tectonic plates meet, there’s trouble—we all know that from grade school—but you might not realise just how much movement they cause when earthquakes aren’t happening. This GIF shows in centimeter accuracy just how dramatic their effects can be.
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Jul 05
The Frozen Lava Flows of Mars
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This might seem like some kind of psychedelic artwork—but you’re actually looking a hundreds of individual lava flows, frozen in time on the side of Olympus Mons on Mars.
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Apr 21
The Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Kamchatka, Russia is going kind of crazy this month. And Live Journal user Lusika33 has been following the eruptions from land and air. It’s pretty amazing to think that these rivers of lava are flowing right now. It seems like shooting from the helicopter may have been kind of scary for Lusika33, but it can’t be more intense than standing in the volcano. [EnglishRussia] More »
Feb 21
Why Does This Image of the Mount Etna Volcano Eruption from Space Look So Weird?
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Because Earth can sometimes look like an Impressionist painting from space, NASA added colors to the Mount Etna volcano eruption to separate what from what. The false-color image combines shortwave infrared, near-infrared and green light in the RGB channels. It looks like Earth on acid. More »
Feb 05
Safely Explore an Erupting Volcano With This Stunning 360 Degree Interactive Video
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A few days ago we posted a behind the scenes look at how the Moscow-based Airpano managed to capture some spectacular footage and imagery of the Tolbachick volcano using a flying drone. But it turns out they also had a 360 degree video camera mounted to one of their helicopters. And the footage of their flight over the volcano and its lava flows has now been posted online for you to explore and drool over. Nature: you still make for some awe-inspiring footage. [Spiegel via Fazed] More »
Feb 01
How a Film Crew Captured Four—Count ‘Em Four—Simultaneous Volcanic Eruptions
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A volcano erupting on its own is no big deal; they’re like earthquakes, no one cares unless it’s catastrophic. But to have four separate volcanic cones—each fed by separate magma sources—all erupting within 110 miles of one another simply doesn’t happen. Ever. This must be what witnessing Haley’s Comet was like. More »
Aug 03
Arizer Extreme Q Vaporizer Review: Bargain Take on a Great Vape [Lightning Review]
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The $670 Volcano has been the undisputed king of vaporizers for a long time. But it hasn’t evolved much, and its ultra-high price hasn’t come down much, either. Can the Arizer Extreme Q fill in for the Cadillac on a Chevy budget? More »
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