Google Street Maps takes cameras into volcanoes

Google Maps has added volcanoes to their list of Street View projects.

In line with the growing popularity of volcano tourism, Google Street View has gone into the bowels of the earth to capture images of what locals in Vanuatu call a hot-headed husband and wife pair with a tendency to erupt in public spats.

For the mission, Google Maps dispatched explorers Geoff Mackley and Chris Horsley to rappel 400m into the belly of the Marum volcano on Ambrym island, and collect 360-degree imagery of the molten lava lake which spans the size of two football fields.