Jul
12
![Under a Blood Red Sky
Photograph by Carlos Gutierrez, Reuters
A plume of ash rises high into the atmosphere and tints the sky blood red above Chile’s Puyehue volcano in the June 5 photograph.
The Chilean volcanic eruption happened to occur during the longest total lunar eclipse in more than a decade, which occurred on June 15.
Many sky-watchers reported that the eclipse moon appeared rusty orange or blood red. This type of color transformation isn’t uncommon during eclipses, because dust and gas in the Earth’s atmosphere can filter blue wavelengths from the sun’s rays, but ash particles from the Chilean eruptions could have helped effect for this particular eclipse.
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Under a Blood Red Sky
Photograph by Carlos Gutierrez, Reuters
A plume of ash rises high into the atmosphere and tints the sky blood red above Chile’s Puyehue volcano in the June 5 photograph.
The Chilean volcanic eruption happened to occur during the longest total lunar eclipse in more than a decade, which occurred on June 15.
Many sky-watchers reported that the eclipse moon appeared rusty orange or blood red. This type of color transformation isn’t uncommon during eclipses, because dust and gas in the Earth’s atmosphere can filter blue wavelengths from the sun’s rays, but ash particles from the Chilean eruptions could have helped effect for this particular eclipse.
[via nationalgeographicdaily]
