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APOD May 9, 2006
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:14 pm
by RWC4520
Today's picture was awesome of the slab of rock building up in the crater of Mt. St. Helens. But it's not really an astronomy picture.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:53 pm
by Orca
Hey, pretty bizarre structure. Cool photo!
And hey, it's an APOD that is close to where I live. Sort of. Yay, NW, w00t.
I found a cool
gallery of photos from one of the series of small eruptions not long ago. It's how the mountain appears from my neck of the woods, Portland (roughly 60 miles from the mountain as the Nazgul flies).
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:12 pm
by orin stepanek
I watched the 2 sec. movie it was quite interesting. Wish it had a few more frames.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060509.html
Orin
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:10 pm
by l3p3r
Aye a few more frames would have been nice... I guess they are all taken at the same time of day and it is seasonal variation we are seeing in the shadows ?
Exceedingly cool, but should have been on epod
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:47 pm
by PitotHeat
Mt. St. Helens is very cool; before the latest eruption sequence restricted flights below 9000', I flew over it and even a little down into the crater a few times: spectacular (none of my pics turned out as well as the apod one).
Here is a lot more info on the mountain, including a fairly up-to-date
webcam.
Heh. Epod posts a space pic...
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:51 pm
by PitotHeat
EPOD "retaliates" by posting a pic of Mars from Spirit.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:59 pm
by Indigo_Sunrise
Those are great links, PitotHeat. I've been visiting the webcam site for a while now. It's neat to see how Mt. St. Helens changes from day to day, and sometimes hour to hour.
Thanks for including them!
Re: Heh. Epod posts a space pic...
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:42 pm
by Pete
It's not an astronomy pic but it does fall under geology and perhaps planetary science. Besides, it is cool!
"
EPOD "retaliates" by posting a pic of Mars from Spirit."
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:38 am
by makc
anyone noticed on May, 1st, the top of this rock fell off?
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:02 am
by harry
Hello All
I like the image. Fantastic
Looks like the volcanic activity maybe building up.