On May 18th 1980, Keith Ronnholm witnessed the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, and captured some of the most famous photos ever. Watch more Raging Planet on discovery : https://bit.ly/3IMCfbk | Love Science

1.5M views · 2K reactions | For a moment, it seemed like a blast from the past: a plume over Mount St. Helens looked like the volcano might be erupting again. But fortunately, this was not an eruption — just a wind-whipped encore decades in the making. https://cnn.it/4gs3yXH | CNN | Facebook

Digging into the #archives today, for this 2006 video of #lava dome growth at #MountStHelens. The #timelapse was taken during the 2004-2008 #eruption by "Brutus", a remote camera east of the #vent. The lava is a crystal-rich #dacite. It was cooling as it made its way to the surface, emerging as a series of lava spines that alternately rose and crumbled. In 2006, when this timelapse was taken, lava was erupting at a rate of about 1 cubic yard per second. The eruption ended in January 2008. At tha