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Fire and ice where glaciers cap active volcanoes

Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park is one of the rare places in the world where fire and ice lie adjacent to one another. The park is home to eight volcanoes located under glaciers. When one of these
Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park is one of the rare places in the world where fire and ice lie adjacent to one another. The park is home to eight volcanoes located under glaciers. When one of… © NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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