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Underwater Lava

Host Noah Adams talks with Christopher Fox, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) about underwater equipment that was monitoring a nearby volcano. It got covered with molten lava, but is still working. The instrument records pressure and temperature variations — it also has a camera, and captured the eruption in movie form, viewable under the title 'lava flow animation' on http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/rumble.html.

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