00:00In the heart of Antarctica's icy silence, fire still breathes.
00:04Mount Erebus, the world's southernmost active volcano, isn't just spewing steam and gas.
00:09It's launching actual gold dust into the air.
00:12That's right. Scientists discovered it emits 80 grams of gold every day.
00:16That's nearly $6,000 worth of tiny gold crystals flying through the freezing sky.
00:22And that gold can travel over 600 miles away from the volcano.
00:26Erebus towers nearly 12,500 feet high, crowned by a glowing lava lake that's been bubbling since 1972.
00:34It's a spectacular natural wonder, but it also hides a tragic past.
00:38In 1979, an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed straight into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
00:47The cause? A chilling white-out illusion that made the giant volcano vanish before the pilots' eyes.
00:53Now, with climate change melting Antarctic ice, there's a new concern.
00:58Less ice means less pressure on magma chambers, and that could spark even more eruptions.
01:03Antarctica may seem frozen in time, but deep below, it's anything but still.
01:08ients near the inner bright stars were its northeast few beingAST in the pierter.
01:11Not only a pass, but space were forced toward the sky.
01:13It's joyous and unbelievable energies.
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01:20You might even call it cry for a night for tens of three times in a castle, but in the last six minutes,
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