Sentences with phrase «lava lake»

Conventional wisdom at the time was that moons are small, inert bodies, so the discovery of lava lakes and sulfur jets on Io came as a shock.

On the mountain's summit the source of the light thrashes and boils: the largest and most active lava lake in the world.

In 2010 the hot spots were dominated by two volcanic centers: Loki Patera, an extremely large active lava lake on Io, and Kanehekili Fluctus, an area of continuing pahoehoe lava flows.

The Hawaiian volcano has been constantly erupting over over 37 years and has not one but two active lava lakes.

The new pictures, which were released by NASA on November 19, revealed a fiery landscape swept with colossal lava flows, vast lava lakes, towering and collapsing mountains and more than 100 active volcanoes.

The spirals, shown below, either formed on top of a cooling lava lake that pooled in the region, or when two flows of lava travelling in different directions or at different speeds moved past each other.

Lava lakes directly exposed to space without an atmosphere would create local hot spots of high temperatures, so they are not the best explanation for the Spitzer observations, scientists said.

Lava flows are regular features on the volcano's broad slopes and every once in a while, the summit lava lake has a small explosion when pieces of the walls fall into the fiery pit.

A super-Earth exoplanet thought to sport lava lakes on its hot side, 55 Cancri e, likely also wears an atmosphere wit... read more

Pāhoehoe is a highly fluid, hot form of basalt which tends to form thin aprons of molten lava which fill up hollows and sometimes forms lava lakes.

You will visit sea cliffs and arches, lava flows of the past, vistas and view points, collapse and ejection craters, Lava tubes, steam vents, sulphur banks, the world famous jagger museum and the amazing Halemaumau lava lake.

Incredible and diverse scenarios: travel to the world of the evil Zulrog and cross the wild territories of the planet's surface, the dangerous enemy base, deep caverns, and subterranean lava lakes and sneak into your enemy's prison to rescue Marlene and put an end to Zulrog's plans.

The new pictures, which were released by NASA on November 19, reveal a fiery landscape swept with colossal lava flows, vast lava lakes, towering and collapsing mountains and more than 100 active volcanoes.

Clive Oppenheimer at Mount Erebus volcano in Antarctica using an infrared spectrometer to measure gas emissions from the volcano's lava lake.

He had placed special microphones around the vent to study how changes in its «voice» related to changes in the lava lake within the volcano.

Because most lava flows erupt and ooze outward, researchers speculate that this hot spot marks a lava lake that is constantly exposed to new lava through breaks in its crust.

Pele's lava lake is 100 times larger than similar active lakes in Hawaiian volcanoes.

One to two kilometres below Kīlauea's lava lake, there is a reservoir of magma.

Vapor clouds over the lava lake are caused by degassing of volatile - rich basaltic magma.

Holuhraun fissure eruption on the flanks of the Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland on Oct. 4, 2014, showing the development of a lava lake in the foreground.

With the first detailed observations through imaging interferometry of a lava lake on Io, Jupiter's innermost Galilean moon, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory places itself as the forerunner of the next generation of extremely large telescopes.

This hot spot was identified as Loki Patera, a lava lake that appeared to be particularly active at the same time.

Be mesmerized by the eerie glow of a lava lake beneath the stars at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park's Halemaumau Crater.

Puʻu ʻŌʻō surface flow activity continues above the Pulima pali (mountainside) in route to the sea The lava lake surface of Halemaʻumaʻu Craterremains very active in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The field preserves explosion pits, lava lakes, squeeze - ups, basalt mounds, and an ash blanket.

Particular Journey takes you through a variety of environments, including a glowing rainbow - neon forest, a lava lake, a forested hillside, and several others.

This almost led to some excitement as the last one unleashed a torrent of chemicals to freeze over a lava lakes so we could cross.

Fate Brought Us to the Shores of a Lava Lake at Dawn (no. 1), 2014, C - print from a chemically altered negative on metallic paper, 82 x 100 cm

The U.S. Geological Survey said a recent lowering of the lava lake at the volcano's Halemaumau crater has raised the potential for explosive eruptions at the volcano.

Officials from the U.S. Geological Survey have been watching a recent lowering of the lava lake in Kilauea's Halemaumau crater, warning residents and visitors of a possible explosive eruption that could launch car - sized boulders far into the sky.