Most of the heat radiated by the lava is reflected by the clean snow, which has a very high albedo. So, this heat is not absorbed and the snow doesn't melt before a close proximity with the lava (inducing a much biger infrared flux).

@@Tavussatwaossi cheers for explaining that 👍🏻

That's great, thank you for explaining!

I noticed that too! But then, I live in snow country too and the snow seems so different anymore.

It looks like the earth popped a zit

Já, fyrir mig líka :)

All the senses?

Thank you! Cheers!

I think it more depends on where it's being observed, as in how far from "real" heat etc. Some of the lava shooting out just above this looked super fluid.

The lava is the same, but the behavior changes at it cools off. When hot, it is very fluid, and runs in streams like this. The crusting over keeps it insulated and it flows along like this. This is called “pahoehoe” from Hawaiian. If the flow underneath cools off somewhat, it still moves, but it’s more like a giant sheet of toothpaste. The surface parts have cooled off into thicker chunks of rock, but the motion breaks it up so you don’t get those nice flat plates. Instead you kind of get a traveling avalanche of rocks falling off, being shoved forward by the red hot mass behind, and getting buried by more rocks falling off... This is called “a’a” lava, also Hawaiian.

@@RoxnDox Thank you for that elucidation!

I thought it would too! It just seems to sublimate when the lava touches it

A commenter under Crazy Gravy's comment has an explanation. Has to do with the way snow reflects heat radiation (albedo)

@@cosmicmuffin322 Seems like a ridiculous explanation to me but the last year has been pretty ridiculous so carry on!! Where I live the snow melts when anywhere near heat. How hot is lava?

@@LindaLou121 I've seen figures around 1000°C ( sorry, don't know the Fahrenheit conversion). Hot enough to fire stoneware but not earthenware pottery -- but don't quote me on that, I may have it the wrong way around! Not hot enough for porcelain, certainly.

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Haha jú!!

It looks like toffee, like melted sugar

@@cosmicmuffin322 Only grey, not a nice light brown caramel colour. I have been imagining pouring bags of sugar onto the lava, but realistically I think it would be so hot that it would burn to carbon and water/steam. Such a shame, as volcano toffee would be such a great souvenir!