Mount Etna in Italy Erupts Again with Eyebrow Clouds | Earth Science
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Featured above is yet another eruption of Mount Etna, Italy. Looking like an artist's rendition of an eruption, here Etna is surrounded by columns of clouds, not smoke. The lava flow seen on the left flank was about 0.75 mi (1.2 km) long and reached an elevation of approximately 8,600 ft (2,621 m). Note that the clouds at the top of the photo are eyebrow clouds that sometimes form on the leeside of mountainous terrain when strong winds are prevalent aloft.
Mount Etna, or simply Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It is located above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Etna is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a current height over 3000 meters.
Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region (Italian: Regione Siciliana), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe.
Image Details: Canon EOS R camera; sigma 150-600 mm lens; 100 ISO; 1/4 seconds exposure; f 5.6. Processed using Photoshop. Photo taken at 7:59 pm on April 18, 2025.
Text Credit: Giovanni Passalacqua
Location: Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy Coordinates: 37.7510, 14.9934
Image Date: April 18, 2025
Release Date: Aug. 13, 2025
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