Meteor showers are one of the many ways of nature to showcase the night sky in the most breathtaking avatar. And now, I stumbled across an image on Instagram where a photographer has managed to capture a meteor shot straight down an active volcano in Indonesia.?
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The image was captured by Gunarto Song (who has quite a few cool images in his Instagram portfolio) at a site called Batu Alien. The mountain is located on the border of Magelang and Sleman regencies.?
Song, in a conversation with Coconuts.co revealed all of this occurred in a matter of seconds. Song said that he was actually fixated on the clouds when he suddenly saw the light coming down from the sky, just for a few moments.?
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However, he was able to capture this trail of green light as the camera was capturing long exposure shots with the shutter speed at four seconds.?
The image looks like something straight out of a Marvel movie but it actually happened. The image shows a straight green light entering right at the top of the volcano, amidst thick grey-black clouds, making most of us think what the explosion would have looked like. However, according to Song, it didn¡¯t make any noise when the green light hit the volcano.
We already know that when a meteor enters Earth¡¯s atmosphere, it comes in contact with immense heat -- that¡¯s why shuttles coming down from the international space station are equipped with heat shields to prevent them from melting and disintegrating, Meteors don¡¯t have such heat shields, so they burn up.
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And meteors normally contain different kinds of minerals or metals. The green glow of a falling meteorite occurs from nickel when it burns up in the atmosphere. And one of the most common metallic meteors are made of iron and nickel, so the green colour.?
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