A heat-sensitive camera designed at Arizona State University and flying on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has led a team of Mars geologists to find seven small, deep holes on the flanks of Arsia Mons, a giant volcano on Mars. The holes may be openings, called skylights, in the ceilings of underground caves.
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The Taupo Volcanic Zone is a region of intense volcanism associated with the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the continental crust of New Zealand's North Island.
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More than 500 people have been evacuated from the slopes of Mount Karangetang which has been spewing lava and hot clouds on the northern Indonesian island of Siau, a report on Sunday said.
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High-resolution images of Martian volcanoes have revealed areas that show signs of recent lava flow.
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Indonesia’s Mount Gamkonora volcano is spewing hot ash and smoke into the air, as seen in this image taken by the MERIS instrument aboard ESA’s satellite Envisat, causing more than 8000 people to be evacuated amid fears of an imminent eruption, according to officials.
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Volcano spits flaming rocks. Indonesia's Mount Gamkonora has started spitting out flaming rocks and sending showers of sparks into the air, indicating the volcano in the east of the country is likely to erupt, an official said on Wednesday.
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Klyuchevskoy (pronounced Kloo-shef-skoy), a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward the Far East.
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Mount Kilauea Volcano Daily Update issued May 24, 2007 07:13 HST Volcanic-Alert Level WATCH - Aviation Color Code ORANGE, Kilauea Volcano Report prepared by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
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Since their discovery in the early 1990s, carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers-tiny structures made of pure carbon-have been used in a wide variety of applications. They have become indispensable in the nanosciences and nanotechnology.
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Piton de la Fournaise, a basaltic volcano located on the Indian Ocean's Reunion island, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
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