During the peak of this year’s Perseid meteor shower, photographer Matt Dieterich pointed his camera at Mount Rainier and created this photo of the meteors and Milky Way erupting from the active volcano.
“Talk about a night to remember!” Dieterich tells PetaPixel. “The morning the Perseid meteor shower peak I was working at Mt. Rainier […]. petapixel.com
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A photographer waited three years to capture these epic shots of the northern lights above an erupting volcano.
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Shocking drone footage shows a huge crack literally splitting apart an Icelandic town, as the country warns of a potential major volcanic eruption. [Read More]
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A team of National Geographic explorers led by Renan Ozturk and Emma Nicholson was able to reach the summit crater of Mount Michel -- a remote stratovolcano -- and confirm the existence of one of nature’s rarest phenomenons: a lava lake. [Read More]