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...picture above shows the planet's great northern volcano, Olympus Mons, the largest known to man. Its multiringed crater measures some 50 miles across and towers 15 miles above a base that stretches for some 375 miles, roughly the distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The volcano was observed from a height of 5,000 miles on a Martian morning in midsummer. The clouds rimming the volcano are seasonal, limited to spring and summer; scientists postulate that they may be formed when ice condenses from the atmosphere as it cools while moving up the crater's flanks...
When they are in Martinique, for example, Alice wants to visit the famous volcano that destroyed an entire city. Trill in, lagging, wheedles her into stopping at a restaurant called Le Colibri, to partake of their calalou des crabes. He rationalizes the detour both to himself and to a skeptic Alice...
...just hope you'll be able to walk," Alice said, watching me go after the second course--a torte made with minced conch. I knew she meant nothing by the remark. She wanted to protect me from overeating in the same way I wanted to protect her from a volcano that had once erupted and killed thirty thousand people...
...atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But only recently has the increase become a cause of concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography atop Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, are confirmed by similar readings at locations as far-flung as the South Pole, Alaska and Samoa...
Central II--Volcano, 6, 9:45, Providence...