April 16, 2010

Cool radar imagery of the Icelandic volcano

And OMFG -- it's coming to eat our souls!!! From the Iceland Review Online:
Iceland Volcano: Radar Pictures of the Craters
On Thursday scientists got the first radar pictures of the craters in Eyjafjallaj�kull. Until then it had been impossible to take such photos. The radar pictures are taken by the ELTA radar on the Coast Guard airplane TF-SIF. The pictures show three craters and how large they are.
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At the time of the flight the flood from G�gj�kull was beginning and the scientists could confirm that a gigantic flood was making its way towards Markarflj�t. The flood has since subsided.
Elta makes some very cool radar equipment: here and here Posted by DaveH at April 16, 2010 8:17 AM