💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌋✨ #MountErebus on #RossIsland, #Antarctica, emits microscopic #crystals of elemental gold in its volcanic plume.

Scientists found faceted #gold particles up to 60 micrometers wide in #snow up to 1,000 km away. The #volcano releases about 80 grams of gold dust daily, but how the crystals form remains an open question.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-southernmost-active-volcano-is-spewing-out-gold-every-day

#geology #earthscience #earth #science #nature #atmosphere

There's a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere

Lava.

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A map of fire and ice for #Day25 of the #30DayMapChallenge for Antarctica. I extracted 27 volcanoes from the #OpenStreetMap natural dataset. From Wikipedia, Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.

#Antarctica #Geofabrik #volcano #volcanoes #MountErebus #MtErebus

Am 10. März 1908, heute vor 115 Jahren, gelang in der Antarktis die Erstbesteigung des Mount Erebus.

Auf der im August 1907 gestarteten Nimrod-Expedition, einer vom Briten Ernest Shackleton geleiteten Antarktisexpeditionen, bestieg eine Gruppe den 3794 m hohen Mount Erebus, den südlichsten aktiven Vulkan der Erde, und erreichte nach einem sechstägigen Aufstieg den Gipfel.

#geschichte #historisch #heutevor #geschichtetoday #mounterebus #bergsport #bergsteigen #antarktisexpedition #antarktis