Volcano Lightning

This is maybe one of the spookiest pictures ever taken, as a volcano in Chile erupts with lightning twining through its cloud of ash, dust, and gasses.

Chile Volcano Lightning from National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcano-photos/

And to think, this may resemble the place where it all began.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37729/title/Primordial_soup_lives_again