Iceland’s Bardabunga Volcano Erupting Pictures Are Just Unreal

Scientists studying the volcano from the air and the ground have had to contend with hazardous plumes of sulfur dioxide gas that are streaming from the fissure in the ground that opened up on the Holuhraun lava field, like a scrape on a person’s skin. The gases may pose a health hazard to populated areas downwind of the eruption, and have been detected as far away as Norway.

The pictures from the eruption which we are going to share here will show you a glimpse of power this eruption holds.

A person stands in front of the lava flow and massive smoke plumes of the Holuhraun Fissure, near the Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland on Sept. 2, 2014.

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Close-up night view of the lava flow as heat from the lava distorts the view of the fountains in the distance on Sept. 2, 2014.

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Aerial view of the lava fountains and massive plumes near the Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland on Sept. 1, 2014.

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Steam rises into the air near the Bardarbunga Volcano on Sept. 2, 2014.

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A close up of lava from an eruption at the Holuhraun fissure on Sept. 1, 2014.

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In this aerial view, fountains of lava, up to 200 feet high, spurt from a fissure in the ground on the north side of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland on Sept. 2, 2014.

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A twilight view of lava fountains of Holuhraun created by the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland on Sept. 2, 2014.

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An aerial view of the eruption at the Holuhraun Fissure by the Bardarbunga Volcano in Iceland on Sept. 2, 2014.

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A man stands near a lava eruption on Holuhraun, northwest of the Dyngjujoekull glacier in Iceland on Sep.1, 2014.

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