Volcanic Lightning
I thourght some of you budding artists and photographers might like too see this if you haven't already, i will try to explain it in my own words too but the picture alone is insane...
Ok, this sorta looks like a coincidence right? Lightning storm runs into a volcanic eruption? Wrong. This is a volcanic lightning storm. It works on the same principles as a normal lightning storm being that tiny pieces of ice in the atmosphere collide with each other creating static electricity which builds up and is eventually disbursed as a bolt of lightning. In this case its rocks and dust, not ice that are creating the static. This is a very rare phenomenon and a photograph as good as this is even rarer. I will keep my eyes pealed for a high res version because i would love this as my desktop.
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Not sure who the photographer is but it was taken in Chili in the last few days. I was also reading about the volcano and the geology of Chili. Apparently it is likely that in the next few weeks maybe months the volcano could explode actually collapsing its cone of rock... In doing so it is said by scientists that it is possible this could trigger up to 20 other volcano's in Chili to erupt... scary stuff...
