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Monday, April 19, 2010

why volcano ash grounds flights

the gorgeous astronomy picture of the day today showing lightning over the erupting eyjafjallajökull volcano...


... reminded me that i wanted to show you the latest sixty symbols video which describes what volcanic ash actually does to jet engines. (view video here).



here is a photo by interactives on flickr showing volcano ash with 400x magnification. really looks like chunks of glass, no?!

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