Volcanologists

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Watching NOVA tonight and they featured the big underwater eruption 2 years ago in Tonga.  They did a good job of explaining the findings so far.  The researchers looked at a nearby active volcano, gathering data both by drone and on foot.
On foot, they hiked to the bottom of the crater within what looked like a couple hundred yards of a big sulfer dioxide plume.  It seems to me it wouldn't take much of a change in conditions to put them in the SO2 clouds.
Besides scientific curiosity, you'd have to have a huge sense of civic duty to take that risk!
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2024, 11:50 PM by tommag.)
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Hiking a young crater like that seems almost suicidal to me. I never got more than an acid burn hole near the hem of my pants in the name of science.
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