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Friday Flotsam

Discover the fascinating icy cold volcanoes on Enceladus, Saturn's moon, and their amazing cryovolcanism features.

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The Q&A post will be coming over the weekend (there's still time to send me a question!)

Icy cold volcanoes (well, geysers) on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.

In the meantime, here are a few quick hits:

Mt. Cleveland in the Aleutians had a small eruption. The plume was only ~15,000 feet / ~3 km. Cleveland is one of the more active volcanoes in the Aleutians, so this eruption is not out of the norm.

Landslides and rockfalls at Arenal (in spanish) in Costa Rica continue to prompt evacuations of tourists near the volcano. It is interesting to note that officials don't seem worried about hotel development near the very active volcano.

The ongoing eruption at Tungurahua now can add lava flows to its list of accomplishments. There have been a number of tremors over the last day and lava flows were spotted near the summit as well.

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