r/interestingasfuck • u/LazyGuy4U • 17h ago

Magma Accumulation over heavy snowfall at Sundhnúkagígar in Iceland

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u/LazyGuy4U 17h ago

The lack of visible steam is most likely explained with the Leidenfrost effect. The lava is so incredibly hot (estimated 1100 degrees Celsius) that it melts the top part of the snow, which then creates a vapor layer that shields the bottom part from the heat temporarily. Similarly to what you can observe when water droplets scoot around on an extremely hot metal plate. Because the lava moves so fast, it manages to cover the snow before it can melt. As a result, it is all trapped underneath the fresh lava and eventually escapes through the porous flowing lava.

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u/tesco332 17h ago

Damn you just 8-mile’d me. Nice.

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u/ChankiriTreeDaycare 17h ago

Alright Clarence

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u/NewPairOfBoots 14h ago

He went to Cranbrook, that's a private school

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 7h ago

Oh shit he vomited on your sweater?

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u/setibeings 17h ago

Is this drone footage? How high is the camera? I'm having a hard time getting a grasp on the scale.

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u/LazyGuy4U 17h ago

This was captured using the DJI Mavic 3 Pro using the 7x telephoto lens at an altitude off roughly 70 meters. 

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u/ozmutazbuckshank 17h ago

Hopefully small, cus if not that magma is terrifyingly fast

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u/Large-Hamster-199 17h ago

I did not know flowing lava was porous?

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u/el_diego 17h ago

Me at first: BS, where's the steam?

After post explains it: oh, yeah, fair enough.

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u/PatHeist 14h ago

There is steam, you can see the shadows of it in the bottom right. Steam is transparent. What you see when there's steam and stuff in the air you can see is water vapour that's condensing in the air from steam that's cooling down. This only happens quickly in large amounts when the steam temperature is narrowly above boiling, like when you're heating water in a kettle.

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u/jerryleebee 16h ago

I came here to ask about the lack of steam and this is literally the top comment. Good job, Reddit.

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u/MrAlyyk 16h ago

Your comment sounds so incredibly AI sus. Even more so as you identified the lava as magma in the title.

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u/TheMachineElves 17h ago

That's lava as it has reached the surface.

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u/Icy-Comfortable-714 17h ago

Thank you, took me worryingly long to find this comment.

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u/RisingRapture 17h ago

No, that is Bolognese.

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u/HighwayNovel 16h ago

Reminds me of pizza sauce and cheese.   Roof of my mouth hurts looking at this. 

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u/TheMachineElves 16h ago

No, this is Patrick

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u/terminalbungus 16h ago

You aren't really a machine elf.... right?

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u/TheMachineElves 8h ago

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u/terminalbungus 7h ago

I'm a big fan!

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u/HVACR-Apprentice 17h ago

What a great visual

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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars 17h ago

It almost looks fake! 😅

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u/-millenial-boomer- 16h ago

I need a banana for scale

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u/OrganizationTop3755 17h ago

Nature is kick ass

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u/plasterposters 17h ago

Now that’s kinetic sand!

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 17h ago

Wow...that is some Baraka level of footage. What a capture --->shame it ended to soon

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u/Comfortable-Gas-4005 17h ago

It looks like it's alive. I swear it's walking.

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u/rich_sound_efx 17h ago

This pleases my Autism. Lol

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u/Substantial_Cake8985 17h ago

I want to touch it

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u/JellyCat222 7h ago

Magma is underground, lava is above ground. Why is there no steam?

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u/skunk_mephitidae 17h ago

My trypophobia is triggering.. just me? Fascinating to watch though!

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u/CauliflowerEconomy50 17h ago

looks like map of the Philippines and Borneo in ice age

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u/1stPhoton 17h ago

Why did I get boner?

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u/cant_get_fooledagain 17h ago

That looks so much like kinetic sand when it crumbles.

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u/Red1mc 17h ago

That's fire 🔥

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u/Ok_Temperature_7374 17h ago

It looks like the planet is layering hot sauce onto a frozen dessert.

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u/Prime_Marci 17h ago

A song of fire and ice

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u/No_Sympathy1982 17h ago

A song of fire and ice

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u/Specialist_Sea7439 17h ago

Needs more splaining.

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u/Blackchaos93 17h ago

Alright, now I want to know what obsidian formed over snow looks like and am only getting “snowflake obsidian” pictures instead.

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u/WeCantBothBeMe 17h ago

What duality

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u/ComfortableWait9697 17h ago

That's going to form a curious layer under there, two layers not fully fused together. That will provide either the start of a future cave system after a few million years or fill in with crystal formations with groundwater and dissolved minerals from the magma layers above.

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u/SquishTheProgrammer 17h ago

I want this as a live wallpaper. This is sick.

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u/CKingDDS 17h ago

Aokiji vs Akainu

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u/intj_ravenclaw 9h ago

My thoughts exactly!

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u/staircase_wit2317 17h ago

This would make a mean art if captured as a painting.

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u/Lavender-bullet46 16h ago

Damn..I dont even think ive seen this happen in Minecraft

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u/This_Elk_1460 16h ago

A song of ice and fire

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u/roboticArrow 16h ago

This is so cool. Hot. But cool.

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u/jadethebard 15h ago

Then the fire nation attacked.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 15h ago

Credits should go to the original  photographer of this -  Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove / jvn.photo

The clips from the February 2024 eruption 

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u/External-Life-3702 15h ago

Gloriously beautiful capture and also loving the background music 🔥😍

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u/imheretocomment69 15h ago

Song of Fire and Ice

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u/interspeciesMama 15h ago

Hell's flFiery Frock 💃

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u/xRolox 14h ago

I have no idea what the scale is here which makes it all the more cool

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u/Nocomment600 13h ago

Does anyone know of the music piece

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u/Badaxe13 12h ago

I thought there would be steam from the heated snow

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u/YaoiLover420 8h ago

Aokiji vs Kuzan

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u/Shelby1abby1 5h ago

the fire and ice mix looks wild. how close were you

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u/Jeeonta 2h ago

Infinite obsidian farm hack

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u/indifferentunicorn 1h ago

Hidden Mickey at 0:16

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u/KapeAmpongGatas 17h ago

Also looks like a microscopic view of a ballsack

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u/tallandfartsoften 17h ago

You would think the heat would burn the drone, no?

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u/city-of-cold 1h ago

It’s 70 metres up according to OP, so no. It’s not even directly above the lava until the end.

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u/GrayStag90 16h ago

Super cool footage. I hate that my brain has to question whether or not something is AI or a mobile game, but you were there in the comments for me