Hellfire & Lightning
by Muhammad Usman, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
The Gates of Hell — a gas crater burning for decades — captured with simultaneous lightning in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert, creating a surreal collision of fire and lightning in the night sky.
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- Atmospheric Sciences (919)
- Energy, Resources and the Environment (373)
- Field (2930)
- Historical (170)
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- Asia (1154)
- Central Asia (70)
- Turkmenistan (2)
- Exact location (58.4397 E, 40.2528 N)
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Taken on 29
March
2026
Submitted on 31 March 2026
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Muhammad Usman (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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