Gallery: Beautiful Images of Bardarbunga's Volcanic Eruption

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By Becky Oskin
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Foul gases

Bardarbunga volcano

(Image credit: Icelandic Met Office)

Scientists wear gas masks to protect against sulfuric acid streaming from the crack in the Earth.

Night light

Bardarbunga volcano

(Image credit: Ármann Höskuldsson/University of Iceland)

Lava trundles over black sand.

Becky Oskin
Becky Oskin
Contributing Writer
Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well as general science topics. Becky was a science reporter at Live Science and The Pasadena Star-News; she has freelanced for New Scientist and the American Institute of Physics. She earned a master's degree in geology from Caltech, a bachelor's degree from Washington State University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.