How far can lava rivers travel without cooling down?Is your ROV made out of recycled things?Is the ROV the one that went into space?
Micheal
Feeley
Hi Micheal,
Lava rivers develop within lava flows but not right at the flow front. This
means that a lava river (usually called a "channel") will be almost as long as
the lava flow. The longest recent flow in Hawai'i was erupted from Mauna Loa in
1859. It is about 51 kilometers long from the vent to the ocean (we don't know
how much longer it went out under water, but probably not too much farther). On
Mars, there are some lava flows that are hundreds of kilometers long, and we
don't know if that is because they were flowing extra fast, or they were extra
fluid, or what.
I can't answer your ROV questions, I'm afraid, because I don't work with the
ROV. Perhaps there are some JASON project people you can ask directly.
Sincerely,
Scott Rowland, University of Hawaii
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