Desktop Project Part 7: A new volcano parts the Red Sea. Kinda

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Apr 1, 2012 4:00 PMNov 20, 2019 1:15 AM

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[Over the past few weeks, I've collected a metric ton of cool pictures to post, but somehow have never gotten around to actually posting them. Sometimes I was too busy, sometimes too lazy, sometimes they just fell by the wayside... but I decided my computer's desktop was getting cluttered, and I'll never clean it up without some sort of incentive. I've therefore made a pact with myself to post one of the pictures with an abbreviated description every day until they're gone, thus cleaning up my desktop, showing you neat and/or beautiful pictures, and making me feel better about my work habits. Enjoy.] It probably won't surprise you to hear I'm not exactly a Biblical literalist. Still, parts of the Bible are known to be based on actual events, so when something turns up that sounds like one of the stories come true, it's not always surprising. Still, I always figured the parting of the Red Sea was wholly fictional. But now something has turned up hat makes me wonder if it could've sparked -- literally -- the legend: a volcano has poked its head up from above the waters of the Red Sea. Here's the scene on October 24, 2007, as seen by the Earth Observing-1 satellite:

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