Our nifty map with the cute icons was loved by readers today, but the Internet is oozing with websites with better means than ours, so here is a collection of some of the images and videos we could find on the web.
Nasa
These guys are good, but they were a bit quiet today, probably because of cuts to their budget that will force them to use old 486 computer to flight their next space mission to Mars. You can find some more interesting images in the NASA’s Earth Observatory area.
Flickr
On Flickr you can find a rich collection of images, some spectacular, some not that spectacular, some depicting stuff that does not relate to the eruption, but being purposely posted with the wrong tags by smart people that want to have more views, while accidentally being hated by all their viewers. Click here to have a list of photos about the eruption taken in the last days. This photo, which has been reposted to death everywhere on the web, from Twitter to sexually oriented forums, came from an unknown source and became THE photo to see of the second Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Everybody has a story to tell about it – “my father took this photo”, “my U.S. friends in Iceland took the photo”, “I took this photo and I am giving it to the world anonymously because I am good”, “a farmer, a friend of mine, expert in HDR photography took the photo” – so take it with a grain of salt, as I am even suspicious that the photo is authentic. And do not forget to post it in your own blog or forum, and invent a new story about it.
YouTube
YouTube is the land of copyright infringement, so the law saying that “even if you shot a video that costed you an arm or an eye to shoot, somebody will post it again and give you no credits for it” always applies here.
Ash Fall After Volcano Eruption – Source:RUV.is (?), posted by kadamatful
WARNING: contains stressed horses (no joke)
Driving Into Volcanic Ash – Source: BBC.co.uk, posted by theworldvideos1
There was no fire to be seen (not yet), so all other images you saw of lava spitting out of a fissure refer to the previous eruption which began on March 20, 2010.
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