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UPDATE: more amazing Nabro volcano images

Posted on June 30th, 2011 6:20 PM

Under the Tags: EO-1, Eritrea, Nabro, volcano
by Phil Plait in Cool stuff, Pretty pictures | 9 comments – which will hopefully rise to 10 comments soon as I have one awaiting moderation there noting a doco (BBC- screened on SBS TV OZ) on the region – ‘The Hottest place on Earth’ which explored the Erta Ale volcano and Afar tribal region.

fish: There’s no “smoke” at all–volcanoes emit ash, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and other gases, but no smoke. The black blob in the thermal-infrared image is indeed primarily water vapor. It’s cold (and therefore dark) because it’s reaching high altitude. The purple-colored smear leading from the volcano to the lower left is made up of ash and gas that’s lower and thinner than the central plume, so it’s semi-translucent in those wavelengths.

When you look at the thermal image also keep in mind that I added topographic shading: it was taken at night at wavelengths that aren’t reflected by the Earth’s surface.

We’ll have another pair of images from June 28 that show some changes in the lava flow, and a greatly reduced plume, posted soon.

Err, to make a mistake.
It, the impersonal pronoun.
RAY, a beam of sunlight, is where the stress is.
Ah, an exclamation expressing pleasure, pain, sympathy, etc, according to the intonation of the speaker.

I assume that it sucks to be near this volcano but that it isn’t near any rich people or airports, or we’d have heard the news and seen pictures sooner. At least someone would have gone to see. This all fits my general impression of Eritrea as “mainly famines, and rather pointless warfare.” So how much of a contribution is the volcano making to the general “sucks to be poor”-ity of Planet Earth? How many deaths so far? Suffocations? Crops destroyed? And am I really, honestly, going to care one hour from now?

Granted, most days you’re showing us a galaxy blowing up, or falling into a black hole or something, which is almost certainly not what any sapient beings possibly living there wanted to experience. But the volcano is a thing on an understandable scale, and, theoretically, you could go there. (In practice, you may not be welcomed.)

There are also several highly visible ones in Ecuador, seen by millions daily: Cotopaxi, Antisana and Cayambe (the only place precisely on the Equator that’s under snow).

The 2 most recognizable the US are Hood & Rainier (and Baker though it’s probably more a common view for people in Canada), probably followed by Adams. St. Helens is less visible/dominant from population centers and not as distinguishable as it was half a century ago (and Honolulu essentially is on one).

Sacrifices, sacrifices, mankind’s making sacrifices to its false gods. The proof of their existence is their silence. More sacrifices!

Can’t pronounce Eritrea? That’s a smitin’!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea

has a link to pronunciation of sorts along with other info, Eritrea~wise.