{"id":35764,"date":"2011-05-29T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/iceland%e2%80%99s-grimsvotn-volcano\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:18","slug":"iceland%e2%80%99s-grimsvotn-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/iceland%e2%80%99s-grimsvotn-volcano.php","title":{"rendered":"Iceland\u2019s Grimsvotn Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/15950_main-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8723\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/15950_main-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/91e99_nasa-second-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8724\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/91e99_nasa-second-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"268\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><div><div><div><h3>Iceland&rsquo;s Grimsvotn Volcano<\/h3><p>On  May 21, 2011, Iceland&rsquo;s Grimsvotn Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume  12 miles (20 kilometers) high and closing Keflavik Airport, Iceland&rsquo;s  largest. Ash fell on much of Iceland, with some areas pitch black at  midday on the 22nd. This eruption is not expected to disrupt air travel  as much as taht of Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 because the Grimsvotn ash  particles are larger and settling out of the atmosphere more quickly.<\/p><p>This natural-color satellite image, acquired by the Moderate Resolution  Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite, shows the  towering ash plume at 1:00 p.m. local time. Beneath the ash plume,  clouds cover much of the scene. Lingering snow is visible beneath the  clouds to the northeast (upper left). Brown ash covers a portion of the  Vatnajokull Glacier near the Atlantic coast (lower right).<\/p><p>Grimsvotn is Iceland&rsquo;s most active volcano, but it hasn&rsquo;t erupted so  forcefully since 1902. The lava is basaltic, which typically erupts in  non-explosive, Hawaiian-style eruptions. Grimsvotn is located beneath a  glacier, however, and the interaction of melting ice with the lava can  create an explosive eruption, at least in the initial stages.<\/p><p><em>Image Credit: NASA, GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response Team<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland&rsquo;s Grimsvotn VolcanoOn May 21, 2011, Iceland&rsquo;s Grimsvotn Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume 12 miles (20 kilometers) high and closing Keflavik Airport, Iceland&rsquo;s largest. Ash fell on much of Iceland, with some areas pitch black at midday on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/iceland%e2%80%99s-grimsvotn-volcano.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}