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Eruption of Sicily's Mt. Etna

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2024-11-02 12:00:00
November 2, 2002

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, Mt. Etna’s thick, yellowish-brown plume continued to billow from the mountain. This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows two thermal detections as well (red dots).

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Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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