While steam vents and mud pools bubble away to the south, I can see the lip of the volcano’s crater lake a short distance away.
About 30 Krafla eruptions have occurred in the past millennium, with the most recent being in the mid-1980s.
I follow Bjorn Por Guðmundsson to a verdant slope. He is leading a group of scientists from around the world who intend to drill into the magma of Krafla.
He states, “We are standing on the spot where we are going to drill.”
The goal of the Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) is to improve our knowledge of the behavior of molten rock, or magma, beneath.
Scientists might use that information to predict the likelihood of eruptions and promote geothermal energy.
