Sicily - Mt. Etna Eruption Landscape and their meeting generated dozens

and their meeting generated dozens of parallel rows of clouds

(NASA image by Robert Simmon and Reto Stöckli)

Spicules dot the frame of solar active region 10380 that crossed the Sun in 2004 June

Time-sequenced images have recently shown that spicules last about five minutes

Sicily - Mt. Etna Eruption Landscape and their meeting generated dozensOn October 28, 2002, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured this true color image of the ongoing eruption of Europes largest and most active volcano, Mt. Etna, on the island of Sicily. The volcanos thermal signature was detected by MODIS and is marked with a red overlay. On the northern slopes of the volcano, the thermal signature is possibly a second lava flow. A dense plume of what is likely ash