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Etna Erupts

The volcano produced streams of lava in March 2017.


Astronaut photograph ISS050-E-58415 was acquired on March 19, 2017, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 400 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 50 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. The daytime OLI view is a NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published March 23, 2017
Data acquired March 19, 2017

Sources:
ISS > Digital Camera
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collections:
Astronaut Photography
Earth at Night