Bjorn Gumundsson leads a team aiming to drill into Krafla's magma to enhance understanding of underground magma behavior, potentially revolutionizing eruption forecasting and geothermal energy utilization.
'It's like our moonshot. It's going to transform a lot of things,' says Yan Lavelle, emphasizing the significance of the KMT in volcanic research and geothermal advancements.
Pressure and temperature sensors will be placed into the molten rock. These are the two key parameters we need to probe, to be able to tell ahead of time what's happening to the magma.'
'We'd like to instrument the magma so we can really listen to the pulse of the earth,' explains Prof Lavelle, highlighting the goal of understanding magma dynamics below ground.
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