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A series of photos taken between 2022 and 2024 shows the emergence and rapid disappearance of a volcanic "ghost island" off the coast of Azerbaijan.
NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.
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Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about to blow — that doesn't involve trekking up a mountain.
Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...
Although Arsia Mons is not the tallest volcano on Mars (that honor goes to Olympus Mons), it stands 12 miles (20 km) high, which is more than twice the height of Earth’s highest mountain, Mount ...
In November 2011, a 1,300-foot-tall (400 m) fountain of lava shot out of the erupting volcano, according to local reports. This is believed to have been the largest single outburst there for at ...
A bomb detonates on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, near the 8,500-foot-elevation source of the lava flow. Army Air Corps/11th Photo Section Pilots are advised to avoid volcanic eruptions, but in 1935 ...
That Time We Bombed a Volcano. When a town in Hawaii was threatened by lava in 1935, a group of airplanes tried to redirect the flow.