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Mount Etna Stands Above the Dust

Saharan dust clouded the skies but stayed low enough to frame the Italian island’s famously active volcano.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photo by Boris Behncke/INGV-Osservatorio Etneo (Catania). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 8, 2022
Data acquired December 7, 2022

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Terra > MODIS