Bubbling lava lake of Nyiragongo

Jonas Kuhn

Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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Huge amounts of gas escape the bubbling lava lake of Nyiragongo in February 2020. The image was taken with a filter that blocks most of the visible light and thus enhances the contrast of the lava's thermal emission to ambient sunlight.

Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2021

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Africa Middle Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Show on map

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Type Image Format JPG Size 4.7 MB Width 4948 px Height 3280 px Aspect 1237:820 Brand Nikon Model COOLPIX A (IR converted) Exposure 19 mm f/2.8 1/1000 s ISO 100 Taken 12 February 2020 Coordinates -1.5238, 29.2485 Tint Black Submitted 14 March 2021

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BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Jonas Kuhn (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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