NOVA · Season 45 · Episode 10

“Volatile Earth: Volcano on Fire”

Aired Thursday 11 October 2018

Climb with volcano experts to the summit of Nyiragongo, a highly active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one of the world's least studied. Twice in recent memory it has erupted, devastating Goma, a neighboring city of 1 million people. To investigate when it might erupt next, volcanologists descend into its crater toward its bubbling and seething lava lake to deploy sensors and monitor the volcano's activity.

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