Chapter 24: Lava Explosion
Walking out of the cave, Fang Hong immediately turned off the live broadcaster and followed Professor Wang obscenely: "This will be broadcast live tomorrow." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Live broadcast, you're funny." Professor Wang thought for a moment: "It's over, many people must know about this discovery, no one will come in the next two days, wait for three more days, and someone else will definitely come." You have to get the first time, and don't think about your live broadcast. ”
Fang Hong: "Don't, you said that hundreds of people are around Antarctica, don't they all want to be in the limelight, what a good opportunity to be in the limelight, think about it, you are doing scientific research in the camera, and other scientists are sitting in front of the computer to watch, how interesting." ”
"It's funny when you say that." Professor Wang turned around: "But it still can't be broadcast, we have some special equipment." ”
"Tomorrow the Americans will definitely be there, they will not be able to see the equipment yet."
"There are some equipment ratings that are called none but us, and some equipment that are called those that there are no one except the United States and none of us. It doesn't matter if they see it. ”
Fang Hong gritted his teeth: "Why don't you report to the leader and see what the leader says?" ”
Leadership?
Professor Wang thought for a moment: "Yes, wait for the WeChat call." ”
In recent years, the Bird mobile phone has been fully transformed into a strong signal communication equipment for both military and civilian use, and at the same time, it is equivalent to giving up the civilian mobile phone market.
But the phones they make are really awesome.
As long as the world is on the surface, there is no signal without that horn, and with the enhanced signal source brought by Huawei's mobile base station, satellite communication can also be made on the Antarctic continent.
Professor Wang's leadership is not a dean, secretary or anything, his immediate supervisor is Zhou Weijian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In fact, Academician Zhou Weijian is a 47-year-old female academician, who is an absolute leader in the study of Quaternary geology and global change and the study of C-chronology of cosmogenic nuclides in the world, and in recent years, it has been expanded to be an absolute leader in environmental tracing.
This one is not as old as Professor Wang, but he is a well-known figure in China in terms of global environment and geology.
As soon as the phone rang, Academician Zhou Weijian gave instructions to let Fang Hong broadcast live.
And students from the three major science universities in the country (UCAS, USTC, and Shanghai University of Science and Technology) were required to watch the live broadcast.
In fact, as soon as the live broadcast came out, the news was soon reported on the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and nothing reacted more quickly than the state apparatus.
Professor Wang also understood that this was a typical and innovative teaching opportunity.
Lao Mei's people have already come up, Hua Bai and Ma Fengfeng are contacting Ocean No. 4 in the distance, and Professor Wang is going to negotiate with Lao Mei.
There is definitely no way to broadcast this live.
Fang Hong took the live broadcaster and walked to the top of the mountain.
"I'm back again."
"Brother Gun, Brother Gun, what do you say?"
The sailors didn't leave at all, they all knew that Fang Hong was going to negotiate with Professor Wang.
"The above has been authorized, and I think it is very educational and can be livestreamed." Fang Hong smiled: "I don't think I will return to the boat today, I will go to the top of the mountain to show everyone the magma lake." ”
Fang Hong raised the gas mask that Yang got from Ma Fengfeng: "If you have to wait until the lava explodes, you have to have this protection." ”
Standing at the top of the mountain, looking at the huge crater and the magma lake looming in the volcanic gas package below: "If you want to see the magma lake activity, you have to wait." ”
"The lava viscosity of Mount Erebus is so high that the volcanic gases form bubbles in the lava and erupt when they reach the surface of the magma lake."
Just waiting at the top of the mountain, in the magma below, a small bulge was created.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Shui Youyou was more excited than Fang Hong.
Fang Hong has the second perspective of the live broadcaster, and that protrusion is at most four or five meters in diameter, and it can't turn over the tricks.
Sure enough, just like the bubble bursting, the gas has not yet fully bulged out of the magma lake, and the upper magma has not yet condensed, it directly shattered, like a fart.
"I'll go, Daddy."
"It's so small."
"It's actually not small." Fang Hong shrugged: "It's enough gas to poison people." ”
Pure volcanic gas, and this is the Eribs Volcano, which is rich in sulfur, and the content of sulfur gas is terrifying, which is rare in the world.
In the second perspective, a huge amount of gas is floating to the surface.
Fang Hong couldn't hold back his excitement and pretended to be calm: "Some have waited." ”
After five minutes, the lake finally began to bulge.
Fang Hong pointed to the surface of the lake: "Do you see it, do you see that huge bulge!" ”
When the gas reached the surface of the lake, the floating speed increased dramatically, and in an instant, a huge bubble with a diameter of more than fifty meters appeared, and the spherical top magma instantly condensed and began to turn black.
"This is how basalt was born!"
From lava to basalt, at the moment of condensation.
In general basalt, the faster it condenses, the higher the texture.
Under the condensation carried by this gas, in just a few seconds, the temperature plummeted from more than 1,600 degrees Celsius to less than 800 degrees, and if the basalt formed could be removed, it would be as hard as glass. Of course, it's also brittle.
Looking at the huge magma bubble, Fang Hong shuddered: "Although it is about four hundred meters away, I still have an urge to run for my life. The largest lava bubble is large enough to eject lava out of the crater. ”
"This bubble contains 65,000 square meters of toxic volcanic gas, and as soon as it bursts, we run."
Gas masks are not a panacea, and there are cameras set up by American scientists throughout the crater, and their people rarely go up to the crater and are easily poisoned.
Sulfur gas, a universal poison, destroys both physiological and nervous tissues, and is carcinogenic, damaging to the respiratory system, digestive system and skin.
On the lava lake, it is like a balloon bursting, but it is a hundred times slower, like a slow replay of sports photography that shatters a large watermelon with a single shot.
The entire sphere was torn apart, and the blackened basalt and red magma at the top were thrown into the air more than 150 meters above the surface of the magma lake, directly breaking through the lower edge of the funnel-shaped crater funnel, and then began to fall under the action of gravity.
This distance is already halfway from the crater to the magma lake.
At the same time, the fiery red magma began to condense in the air, turning into basalt and falling on the surface of the magma lake, and then being instantly burned red.
Tiny fragments stick to the rock wall, which is why the crater is funnel-shaped down from year to year, and the lava sticks to each other during years of volcanic activity, eventually shrinking the crater.
A yellowish blue-black smoke rises and begins to fade when it reaches the mouth of the funnel.
"The sulfur gas began to diffuse and diluted, and the wind howled." Fang Hong turned around and walked up and down.
In the panoramic shot, the smoke rises and eventually forms a thin cloud in the crater, which eventually disperses with the strong winds.
Fang Hong stood in a safe place and looked back at the crater: "It's like the bubbles that bulge out after the hot pot is boiled, the fire is too big." ”
"The ancient five elements, fire gives birth to earth, and that's true."
"Brothers, see you tomorrow, I'm going to meet them and wait to see the Americans."
A small radar station in a room.
This night, equipment was constantly sent by helicopters, as well as scientific expedition personnel and scientists and scholars on the Haiyang-4.
A number of special tents have been erected near the station.
In temperatures of minus 20 degrees, it is not too comfortable.
This is the outer ring of Antarctica, plus it is not far from the sea, and it is very windy.
It was a great honor for Comrade Fang Hong to contribute his position at the US scientific research station to the respected veteran scientist who came up from Haiyang-4, and he slept in a tent under the wind and snow with his head covered.
In the crater, the sound of magma bubbles bursting, faintly, did not stop all night.