Drone Footage Looks Inside Iceland Volcano

[Baclava]

It's all cracking open!

[randome]

1. It's a drone, goddamnit! What is the MIC up to now?

Cool video. Wow.
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[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Spectacular footage! I haven't seen anything this good before. n/t

[Baclava]

4. I found it on the Weather Channel - the kings of disaster porn

Last month, Eric Cheng of drone maker DJI and photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson set out to film the raw fury of Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano from a bird’s eye view – and provide a closer look than any human ever has to a fiery, active caldera, Wired.com reports.

On September 20, the daring duo set out to film Iceland's Holuhraun fissure with a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 that Cheng controlled via wireless remote,

The drone had to travel over a mile unmanned from where Cheng was positioned and dodge 600-foot-high spurts of lava and molten rocks shooting high into the air, the Washington Post reports. Unfortunately, the camera didn't survive the trip.

"I brought (the drone) in for landing and I noticed that the front of the GoPro had been completely melted, Cheng said in a video for DJI. "Apparently it had been so hot that the camera had melted. Luckily the micro SD card survived and I was able to pull the drone off of it."

http://www.weather.com/news/iceland-bardarbunga-volcano-drone-footage-20141002

[newfie11]

3. Drones are good for something

Awesome pictures!!!

[Baclava]

5. I want one!

(before they are banned)

[treestar]

6. Fantastic!