At Erebus volca** in Antarctica, a long-lived Lava Lake puffs steam and launches Lava bombs at scientists who scale its slopes, hoping to unravel the mysteries of how volca**es work. (Lava bombs are flying blobs of molten rock.)
"We think Lava lakes are really the top of a magma chamber, so by studying Lava lakes we can see what's happening in the guts of the volca**," said Philip Kyle, a volca**logist at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, who has visited Erebus since the late 1960s. Read more...