Volcanic Eruption
This Is Crazy: You Can Watch Mount St. Helens Erupt from Space
This week marked the forty-first anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which took place on May 18, 1980. For the occasion, the NOAA Satellites Twitter account sent a...
How Climate Change Turned Venus from an Earth-like Planet to Uninhabitable Wasteland
We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450℃ (the temperature of an oven’s self-cleaning cycle) and an...
Iceland’s Next Big Volcanic Eruption Might Be Coming
The ice-covered Grímsvötn volcano on Iceland produced an unusually large and powerful eruption in 2011, sending ash 20km into the atmosphere, causing the cancellation of about 900 passenger flights. In...