Image:Surtsey eruption 1963.jpg

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Surtsey on November 30, 1963, 16 days after the beginning of the eruption. Image: Howell Williams. Image source: NOAA.


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The image has been heavily postprocessed, adjusting the colour balance, hues, and saturations to remove the strong red tint of the original. Some of the more annoying speckles also have been removed. The result isn't as good as , but then, that version looks almost artificial. A related image is at Image:Surtsey_eruption_1.jpg, other attempts to remove the red tint can be found at Image:Surtsey_eruption_temp.jpg. Lupo 09:20, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

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  • (del) (cur) 09:20, 22 August 2005 . . Lupo ( Talk | contribs) . . 982×652 (149,515 bytes) (Surtsey on November 30, 1963, 16 days after the begin of the eruption. Image: Howell Williams. Image source: [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/slideset/28/28_580_slide.shtml NOAA]. {{PD-UsGov-DOC-NOAA}} The image has been heavily postproc)

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