Spectacular Volcano Photos

Photographer
Martin Rietze got to within 250 metres of the lava fountains to capture
his stunning series of images

Lava
hits the sea from the volcanic eruption between the Myrdalsjokull and
Eyjafjallajokull glaciers, east of Iceland’s capital
Reykjavik

Only
around an hour old, this lavaflow is falling from a steep cliff a few
hundred metres from the main eruption

Lava spurts
out of the site of a volcanic eruption at the Fimmvorduhals volcano near
the Eyjafjallajokull glacier

Close-up: The
dark cloud of smoke coming from the Icelandic crater as seen by an
Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter

The plume from
the Icelandic volcano – seen as a grey-brown streak drifting across the
middle of the image – is visible from space. It was imaged by the Modis
instruments on two Nasa satellites as it blew towards the Shetland
Islands

Coating:
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University collected these particles of
volcanic ash (seen here under a microscope) which fell on cars in the
centre’s grounds earlier today

Frozen: Ice
chunks carried downstream by floodwaters caused by volcanic activity lie
on the Markarfljot riverbank in Iceland yesterday

Dusty: A car
in Iceland drives through the ash from the volcano

Widespread:
Ash from the erupting volcano sweeps in an arc across the Netherlands,
Germany, Poland, and Russia in this image from NASA
yesterday

Spectacular: A
satellite image of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in
Iceland

A man surveys
what is left of the main Icelandic coastal road after it was washed away
by flood water following the volcano eruption

Around 800
people have had to be evacuated and 70 tourists were rescued after they
were trapped by the rising flood waters

Spectacular:
Plumes of smoke shoot up from a volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier
in Iceland today which has erupted for the first time in 200
years

The
Eyjafjallajokull eruption is the second in less than a month and has seen
hundreds of international flights cancelled

Workers
have been forced to smash holes through roads in Iceland to allow the
surging flood water to escape out to sea

Part
of the glacier has melted under the ferocious temperatures causing the
flood swell to pour down the mountain

Experts
are concerned the recent eruption could trigger another more powerful one
from the nearby Katla volcano

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