Here’s What It’s Treasure to Cruise into a Volcano (from a Drone’s Viewpoint)

Here’s What It’s Treasure to Cruise into a Volcano (from a Drone’s Viewpoint)

Iceland volcano eruption drone shots.

In the event you owned a $1,000 drone, would you flee it into the mouth of a volcano? Properly, you don’t must, because photographer Garðar O?lafs did it for you. He took his 4K DJI drone so cessation to the mouth of Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall that allotment of the drone melted. Thankfully, he caught all of it on video.

The video looks admire one thing out of a movie, with intense orange-crimson lava, a soot-lined volcano, and a backdrop of snowy white peaks. In an interview with PetaPixel, O?lafs says “I slowly lowered the drone till all I could possibly well gaze used to be erupting lava, and when I looked up, I didn’t gaze the drone anymore.” Yeah dude, you flew it into a volcano!

Whereas O?lafs’ drone peaceable flies, one in all its lights doesn’t work, and a few of its sensors (at the side of the impediment-avoidance sensor, which must were going nuts internal the volcano) are usually no longer any longer purposeful.

O?lafs lives internal 15 minutes of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, which is found cessation to Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik. He frequently posts excessive-quality nature photos and videos on his Instagram, and sells photographs for corporations and creatives thru his company, Airstock.

Source: Garðar O?lafs via Digital Trends, PetaPixel

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