A High-Res Look into the Mountain Made Famous by Lord of the Rings

An astronaut aboard the Worldwide House Station (ISS) captured this beautiful photograph straight above Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, higher often known as Mount Doom from the Lords of the Rings film trilogy.

In a really distinctive perspective, an astronaut aboard the ISS used a Nikon D5 digicam and 1150mm lens to catch the second the spacecraft was straight above Mount Ruapehu wanting straight into the lively vocation.

264 miles above the Earth, the unnamed, however gifted photographer timed their shot to perfection to get an important take a look at Mount Ruapehu, the tallest mountain on New Zealand’s North Island standing at 2,197 meters (9,177 ft) and an lively stratovolcano. The photograph was taken in 2021 however was only published on September 18.

Close to the summit lies Crater Lake, often known as Te Wai a-moe within the native Maori, which is heated by a hydrothermal system throughout the volcano.

Following a interval of dormancy relationship again to 2011, volcanic exercise was reported at Ruapehu in 2022 with water temperatures peaking round 40 levels Celsius (104 levels Fahrenheit).

NASA Publishes Second Picture of Underwater Volcano

One other picture of a volcano, additionally within the Pacific area, was printed this week by NASA, however this time it was truly ejecting steam. Nevertheless, this volcano was underwater, near the Residence Reed seamount within the Central Tonga Islands, which has the very best density of underwater volcanoes on the earth, and on September 10 one in every of them awoke.

After the underwater volcano erupted a brand new island was fashioned, with NASA’s Landsat 9 capturing the newly fashioned land on September 14. The island is estimated to have grown to over 24,000 sq. meters (six acres) and is positioned southwest of Late Island, northeast of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, and northwest of Mo’una’one.

Islands created by submarine volcanoes are sometimes short-lived, although they often persist for years. Residence Reef has had 4 recorded durations of eruptions, together with occasions in 1852 and 1857. Small islands quickly fashioned after each occasions, and eruptions in 1984 and 2006 produced ephemeral islands with cliffs that had been 50 to 70 meters excessive.

Frodo’s Vacation spot

Lord of the Rings followers might know Mount Ruapehu higher as Mordor’s Mount Doom, the place that Frodo and Samwise took an arduous journey to get to so they may destroy the One Ring.

The jagged rocks and lively volcano created the proper eerie backdrop for the Peter Jackson-directed Lords of the Rings trilogy.

Picture credit:Header photograph courtesy of NASA.