Image: Italy’s Stromboli erupts

A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted early on Sunday morning, releasing enormous plumes of smoke and a lava move pouring into the ocean. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this picture of the aftermath lower than 5 hours after the eruption.

The eruption brought on the partial collapse of the crater terrace which was adopted by main flows of lava stretching to the ocean and large plumes of smoke rising a number of hundred meters above the volcano. Italian civil safety authorities raised the alert from yellow to orange because the “scenario of enhanced volcano imbalance persists.”

This Sentinel-2 picture has been processed in true colour, utilizing the shortwave infrared channel to focus on the brand new move of lava. Sentinel-2 relies on a constellation of two an identical satellites, every carrying an progressive extensive swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for monitoring modifications in Earth’s land and vegetation.

The northernmost island of the Aeolian archipelago, situated simply off the northern tip of Sicily, Stromboli’s volcano has been erupting nearly repeatedly for the previous 90 years.