#earth New satellite images have revealed a stunning pattern of concentric cloud rings, resembling a bull's-eye, that was formed by the continued eruption of the volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
Normally, a volcano's eruption plume rises straight up into the stratosphere forming a towering column.
But here hot air of Saharan Air Layer forced the plume to move horizontally. The concentric rings formed because of the natural ebbs and flows in the intensity of volcanic activity.
On the next gif you can see the timelapse of their formation from the ground.
The official name for this type of concentric cloud formation is a gravity wave. However, the formation has nothing to do with gravity.
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Normally, a volcano's eruption plume rises straight up into the stratosphere forming a towering column.
But here hot air of Saharan Air Layer forced the plume to move horizontally. The concentric rings formed because of the natural ebbs and flows in the intensity of volcanic activity.
On the next gif you can see the timelapse of their formation from the ground.
The official name for this type of concentric cloud formation is a gravity wave. However, the formation has nothing to do with gravity.
- @science -