I think its so cool. I especially like how you can see all the different colors of the flame.
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March 16, 2013
March 16, 2013
Methane Ignition, Alaska
Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Methane is bubbling from lakes all over the warming Arctic. Here ecologist Katey Walter Anthony (at right) ignites a large bubble that was trapped by the fall freeze—then freed by an ice pick.
See more pictures from the December 2012 feature story "Good Gas, Bad Gas."
See how fuel is broken from rock »
Learn about the great shale rush »
Find out more about Emerging Explorer Katey Walter Anthony »
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exciting mixture of in-focus and out-of-focus bringing my eyes straight to the fire and then all around and back to the fire
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Quite an amazing and fascinating capture of Earth with Her many features. Love how the image "grabs my attention" with the actions with fire, people, ice and earth.
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free fuel bubbling out of the ground which if not used will dissipate into the atmosphere: oh by the way it is one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases there is.
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