This is the most insanely interesting volcanic footage I have ever seen! Watch it all the way through because it gets closer up and more intense towards the end. Amazing stuff!
-Larry O'Hanlon
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Larry O'Hanlon
is Discovery Earth's producer. Before that he wrote 1,000-odd science stories for Discovery News. Larry started out as a geologist, spent a little time as a ranger in Death Valley, then moved into writing about Earth and environmental sciences for every sort of media outlet. He lives with his wife and kids in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Kieran Mulvaney
is the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling. He’s finishing a book on polar bears. He’s co-founder of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, a leader of Greenpeace expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic.
John D. Cox
is the author of Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change & What It Means for Our Future; Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin’s Kite to El Niño, and Weather For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest of Us. His journalism career includes the Sacramento Bee, Reuter Ltd., & UPI. He lives in northern California.
Michael Reilly
is a volcanologist and Earth science writer for Discovery News. In the past, Michael has worked for New Scientist, Wired, the Newark Star-Ledger, and Gawker Media's science fiction blog, io9. He lives alarmingly close to the San Andreas fault, along with 7 million other people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
That was pretty cool. Now I feel just like the astronauts must've felt when they took these images: seasick.
Posted by: Michael Reilly | June 29, 2009 at 07:34 PM
powerful footage. Thanks for sharing!!
Posted by: Summer | June 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM
the looped sequences are amazing. too bad we dont have another angle.
Posted by: trans | July 01, 2009 at 05:36 AM
It is just so awesome. The best of it's kind that I have seen so far !
Posted by: Kamal Hasa | July 01, 2009 at 07:04 AM
Very cool footage and editing to give the viewer the illusion of moving frame of reference.
I wonder what the dispersal patterns of the plume looked like after 24-72 hours after the ejecta penetrated the upper atmospheric levels. (The ISS wouldn't have seen it on following orbits, but geostationary meteorology satellites should have caught something, albeit at lower resolutions.)
Posted by: Jim Belfiore | July 01, 2009 at 07:30 AM
aren't the rolling ash cloud called pyroclastic flows and not lahars which are when snow on the mountain tops melts and form devastating floodwaters mixed with ash etc.
Posted by: daniel | July 01, 2009 at 07:43 AM
Do the astronauts also have video cameras on board?
Posted by: Sally J | July 01, 2009 at 08:07 AM
realtime seismic view of Earth
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
click on area to magnify
Posted by: ImaginaryUnit | July 01, 2009 at 10:50 AM