What do you have here? Lava flow­ing from a deep-ocean seafloor vol­cano, explod­ing into 35 foot long streams with bub­bles as much as 3 feet across. This kind of action has nev­er been wit­nessed before. (Some­what sur­pris­ing, no?) This clip comes out of The Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton. And the real action, which takes place near Amer­i­can Samoa, begins at the 1:28 mark.

In Novem­ber 2007, Japan’s Kaguya space­craft orbit­ed the moon with a high-def cam­era onboard. You can see the first HD footage of an “earth­rise” and “earth­set” by check­ing out these still images (Earth­rise and Earth­set). The video above gives you a good look at what an “Earth­rise” looks like from out­er space.

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