Friday, April 25, 2014

APOD 4.5

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This is a photo of a massive ash plume from a volcano in Iceland in 2010. Its location was noticable because the plume drifted across many highly populated areas. Eyjafjallajökull volcano started errupting March 20th, 2010 and had a second eruption near a small glacier in April of that same year. The second eruption melted a large amount of glacial ice which cooled into fragmented lava. This is a photo of the second eruption.

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