A Volcano Almost Always Hidden by Clouds Kept a Permanent Lava Lake, and Satellites Took Decades to Confirm What Was in the Crater

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In the remote archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands, Mount Michael, on Saunders Island, remained for decades as one of the least observed volcanoes directly on the planet. Almost constant clouds, volcanic feathers and isolation made it difficult to see the interior of its crater. Since the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, satellites recorded heat...