Mount Etna glows hot in new satellite image

Sicily sparkles with city lights in a new satellite image, but what’s that lighting up Mount Etna? Hot lava. A new image taken by an instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite shows the nighttime glow of lava during a recent active period at the volcano, which towers 10,922 feet over the island. Mount Etna has been belching ash and lava in the past few weeks. On March 16, 10 people were injured in an explosion of hot rock on the mountain, an incident captured by a BBC film crew. More

(Source: CBS News - Mar 21)