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Wonder of ScienceThis is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.
Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
Scott 🏴😷@wonderofscience how do you know are you from space
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@wonderofscience I love how it seems to punch a hole in the clouds
WesDym@ScriptFanix It does. Rapidly rising air will displace air above it, and anything in that upper layer will be moved aside along with it. Air is a fluid, and behaves much like water.
Andy@wonderofscience The way the world’s going, this’ll be a major European city in three months.
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LittleScrapsoftheNorth@wonderofscience oooh that is almost creepy looking. Not sure why but I feel ooogy
Daniel Casanueva@littlescraps I think this is because the original was a picture, and it was animated with AI or something like that.
@danielcasanueva ah that makes alot of sense. My brain just knows something is off. Thanks for the idea!
@danielcasanueva @littlescraps It's a series of still images taken from an over-flying orbiting camera, digitally knitted together to create a crude sense of animation. The result is not what you'd actually see, and causes disorientation from being uncanny.
@wonderofscience Magnifique et destructeur.
Hégémon@wonderofscience SOME volcanic eruptions look like this, but some others don't. There are different kinds of volcanoes and eruptions.
This still-movie is of the 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak in Russia, taken from ISS. This was a Plinian eruption, one of the most violent and dramatic kinds.