A SPOT satellite image shows a smoke plume coming from Mount Etna, which occupies the eastern part of the Italian island of Sicily. Mount Etna is Europe’s largest and most active volcano. Credit: Planet Observer / SPL / Barcroft Media. (via Telegraph)
(via itsfullofstars)
Source: telegraph.co.uk
This is the “smoke ring” a strange phenomenon that happens in volcanos and it has only been documented 3 times. Two from Mt. Etna in 1970 and 2000, and another from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, in May 2010.
(via bluedogeyes)
Source: Gizmodo
“Close Encounter” by Adam Stinton
Nyamuragira photo by Minoru Kasahara, 1991( via Global Volcanism Program)
