DSRS: Images of volcanic eruptions from Mount Etna

Mount Etna, a volcano on the island of Sicily, erupts frequently. The resulting cloud can be clearly seen on satellite images. The vents have such high temperatures that they also appear in images but as saturated pixels.

We have the following selection of images:

24 November 2006
A fantastic image of the smoke plume can be seen on the 12:26 image from Aqua
21 July 2001
Quicklook images clearly showing the ash plume, as seen by the AVHRR instrument. A high-resolution close-up image in pseudo-colour is available too, as seen by the MODIS instrument.
20 May 2000
Collection of images from AVHRR and from Meteosat.
15 May 1983
The ash plume can be seen blowing south east on our AVHRR Quicklook images at 13:39.

See our gallery for other images.

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