A team of National Geographic explorers was able to reach the summit crater of Mount Michel — a remote stratovolcano — and confirm the existence of one of nature’s rarest phenomenons: a lava lake.
Mt. Michael, an active volcano in the South Sandwich Islands, rises more than 3,000 feet above the southern Atlantic Ocean.explorers led by Renan Ozturk and Emma Nicholson was able to reach the summit crater of Mount Michel — a remote stratovolcano — and confirm the existence of one of nature’s rarest phenomenons:Nicholson personally stood near the rim of the crater at the top of Mount Michel and flew a drone over the mouth, confirming the lava pool below.
Lava lakes are large volumes of molten lava that are at all times wholly or partially molten. Basically, a steady state of lava. This phenomenon is rare since lava tends to cool quickly when it reaches the surface and hardens. In order for a lava lake to exist, “the balance between heat coming up from within the vent system of the volcano must be perfectly balanced with the rate of cooling to keep the lava in its molten state,” Nicholson explains.
Mount Michel is particularly remote and is part of a chain in the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands about 1,000 miles north of Antarctica.“If you stand on Saunders Island,” says Nicholson, “your closest other humans are on the International Space Station. That’s the definition of remote.”expedition sailed 1,266 miles from the Falkland Islands to bring scientists and photographers to Mount Michael in order to verify the lava lake that had been indicated by satellite photos.
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