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	Volcanic sunsets

mariana3

8-31-2008 3:18 PM

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astronomy, climate, geology, volcano, sky, sunset

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9e9bf776-135e-4ec1-abca-563be4a005a7/54A94570-B2DC-4F90-A931-DCD6A33CE78C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spaceweather.com/" href="http://www.spaceweather.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spaceweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/9CF5BBD0-96E9-4D63-AF5E-9CDD34DF41A3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/">This weekend, observers around Europe are 
              reporting the same "volcanic sunsets" widely observed 
              last week in North America.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/">"This was probably due to aerosols in the stratosphere 
              spewed by the August 7th eruption of the <A href="http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Kasatochi.php">Kasatochi 
              volcano</A> in the Aleutian Islands."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/">Meanwhile, back in the USA, "the sky is on fire," reports 
              Doug Zubenel of Kansas. "The colors tonight (Aug. 30th) were 
              about as vivid as I have ever seen (<A href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Doug-Zubenel-IMG_4579_1220151442.jpg">photos</A>)." 
              One state away in Nebraska, Jerry Chab reports "the sky was 
              white at the horizon and turned yellow, orange, red, purple, blue 
              then finally black up high (<A href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Jerry-Chab-090705aa_1220147843.jpg">photos</A>). 
              It was like a rainbow in clear skies!"</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/54A94570-B2DC-4F90-A931-DCD6A33CE78C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>