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This Is How Total Destruction On Earth Looks from Space

Posted September 10, 2009 12:46 PM

From Gizmodo:

Back in June, astronauts onboard the International Space Station took a few spectacular photos of the Sarychev Peak volcano as it exploded in a 5-mile high plume of ash and gas. Here's the even more spectacular video. The ISS was flying 220 miles over the island of Matua when the volcano erupted in a pyroclastic flow, a howling mass of ash and gas that moves at 130 miles per hour, reaching temperatures up to 1,112ºF (600ºC). Such a terrible mayhem, yet so beautiful.

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09/10/2009 7:59 PM

awesome video!!!!

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