By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-19 21:04:58 | Updated at 2024-10-19 23:55:18
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'It's Our Moonshot': Why Scientists Are Drilling Into Volcanos
BBC ^ | 10/18 | Adrienne Murray
Posted on 10/19/2024 1:56:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano's crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away.
Krafla has erupted around 30 times in the last 1,000 years, and most recently in the mid-1980s. Bjorn Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla's magma.
“We’re standing on the spot where we are going to drill,” he says. The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) intends to advance the understanding of how magma, or molten rock, behaves underground.
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1 posted on 10/19/2024 1:56:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Following in the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm and Professor Otto Lidenbrock.
2 posted on 10/19/2024 1:59:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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