Eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

The thick plume of volcanic ash and smoke coming from Mt. Etna has tapered to a thin line over the course of the past four weeks, but a thermal signature was still being detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on November 23, 2002. The plume is streaming east over the Mediterranean Sea, and is casting a dark shadow to its north. Mt. Etna began erupting on October 27, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-11-25