Comments on: Desktop Project Part 11: Upside down volcano plume

By: Bob Lee

Bob Lee — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:14:14 +0000

There’s “steam” – and then there’s high-altitude water vapor – aka clouds.

The pressure drop from volcano fumerole to atmosphere at over 5,000 ft above sea level is pretty severe – enough to generate lots of water vapor.

By: Norw

Norw — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:45:53 +0000

Nice shot. I thought this was another pareidolia picture. The Abominable Snowman doesn’t seem to happy having the pimple on his nose blow up, spilling it’s puss in his left eye like that.

By: Electro

Electro — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:26:39 +0000

In my personal experience, steam plumes turn to ice-fog in frigid weather and remain as visible columns for far longer than they do in warmer climes.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:13:26 +0000

And here, i thought that a Vulcanologist studied Vulcans. Maybe i thought they pointed telescopes at Epsilon Eridani. This is a good time of year to look.

I suppose a Vulcanologist could study the planet once thought to exist closer to the Sun than Mercury.

By: Wzrd1

Wzrd1 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:10:37 +0000

I’m rather surprised how far the plume went and still retained heat (from the thermal imagery), I’d have thought that the plume would be below freezing at half of the distance!
Kamchatka is one of the coldest places on the planet, so that only illustrates the tremendous heat present deep below our feet.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:32:37 +0000

Again Dr. Plait the Astronomer shows his desire to be Dr. Plait the Vulcanologist.