Mail Online - 2/22/12, Mark Prigg
- Image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite on February 19th
- Nasa tweaked colours to make it easier to differentiate between fresh lava, snow, clouds, and forest
What it shows: Nasa tweaked the image colours to make it easier to distinguish between the various parts of the eruption and surrounding area
After ten months of what experts call a 'low simmer', Italy’s Etna volcano boiled over on February 19th, with three massive outbursts in 36 hours.
Lava flows down the flanks of Sicilian volcano Mount Etna as it erupted on Tuesday
According to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, each outburst (paroxysm) featured 'emission of lava flows, pyroclastic flows, lahars, and an ash cloud.'
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