A Glowing Plume Over Mount Etna

Intense lava fountains and lava flows illuminated a volcanic plume spreading across Sicily during an unusually pitched night of activity at the Italian volcano.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Joint Polar Satellite System and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 25, 2021
Data acquired February 23, 2021

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

NOAA-20 > VIIRS

Collection:

Earth at Night