Given the lack of coverage of the latest Icelandic volcano saga*, have a read of this girl’s blog:
http://www.dailykos.com/user/Rei
(Some of the linked pages are in Icelandic. I suggest Google translate to get the core of the articlea. Mostly.)
Harrison Ford forgot Jack Ryan.
The best write-up of the Icelandic volcanic eruption you’re going to find anywhere:
http://www.dailykos.com/user/Rei
The diary entries have links to some awesome photos.
(And I have a feeling I’ve posted this somewhere else as well. Tough luck if I have.)
Um, yeah, about three messages up, on this thread, actually.
I wish I could.
Jack Ryan was not a action hero, and Clark was not what’s his damn face.
Oh yeah. So I did. That’s what I get for posting late at night.
New Zealand moonrise in real time:
Okay, so this isn’t actually a web find, but a picture that I took today and posted on the web (pun intended)
From [APOD][1]:
[62 Kilometers above Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko][2]
Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Additional Processing & Copyright: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin (Alive Universe Images)
Explanation: Spacecraft Rosetta continues to approach, circle, and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet last month, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus. The reconstructed-color image featured, taken about 10 days ago, indicates how dark this comet nucleus is. On the average, the comet’s surface reflects only about four percent of impinging visible light, making it as dark as coal. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko spans about four kilometers in length and has a surface gravity so low that an astronaut could jump off of it. In about two months, Rosetta is scheduled to release the first probe ever to attempt a controlled landing on a comet’s nucleus.
Edit: added a link.
[1]: Astronomy Picture of the Day
[2]: APOD: 2014 September 15 - 62 Kilometers above Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
What about Japan’s “Hayabusa” probe a few years back? That managed to touch down on a comet and actually brought some “soil” samples back to earth.
Didn’t it just smack into it though?
This shit is seriously exciting. It’s possible in my lifetime that asteroid mining may be a thing.
I sure hope Bruce Willis & Ben Affleck are available.
I was just quoting the website. Take it up with them. 
I’m inclined to think it’s the “controlled” part that’s new. Whenever something like this happens I just look for the extra word.
I just thought it was a bad ass photo of a comet even with the post processing. You just don’t see that kind of photo every day.
Kerbal Space Program scenarios are being tested at NASA as we speak. They want to make sure it’s a viable option. 
The total lack of scale and perspective is spooky. For all I know they are 10 feet away, or 100 miles.I saw that it was 62 kilometers, but are we looking at huge chasms, or gentle slopes, is it dust is it denser? Is it solid rock?
This stuff really gets me going.
There were some links embedded in the explanation on the actual APOD page I copied the info from. Here are a few of the interesting ones:
Holy balls, that image is awesome.