Picture of the Day: Perfect Rainbow Over Mount Vesuvius
In this perfectly timed (and perfectly placed) photo we see a rainbow that seems to perfectly arch over Mount Vesuvius. Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.
Photograph by -yenn- on reddit
Photograph by -yenn- on reddit
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Photograph by -yenn- on reddit
Photograph by -yenn- on reddit
Vesuvius is best known
for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman
cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and several other settlements. That eruption
ejected a cloud of stones, ash, and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi),
spewing molten rock and pumice at a rate of 1.5 million tons per second. It
ultimately released a hundred thousand times the thermal energy unleashed by
the Hiroshima bombing. [source]
Vesuvius has erupted
many times since and is the only volcano on European mainland to have erupted
within the last hundred years. Today it’s regarded as one of the most dangerous
volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3 million people living
nearby, making it the most densely populated volcanic region in the world. [source]
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