April 16, 2024

Striking satellite photo captures Mount Vesuvius peering through a hole in the clouds

It is made up of numerous active, inactive and extinct volcanoes both on land and undersea, including Mount Etna in Sicily, which began emerging once again in February 2021, Live Science formerly reported.Related: 10 times volcanoes blew our minds in 2021Vesuvius most popular eruption all at once damaged and protected the Roman city of Pompeii, as well as the nearby town Herculaneum, in A.D. 79. In spite of staying calm considering that its last eruption, Mount Vesuvius is still categorized as an active volcano and occasionally experiences shaking from belowground earthquake activity and gas venting from its top. It is concerned as one of the most unsafe volcanoes on the world since any future eruption has the prospective to damage Naples, an Italian city located 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) northwest of the volcano, which is house to more than 3 million people.This broader view from the Landsat 8 satellite reveals simply how striking the Mount Vesuvius volcano is looking through white clouds in Italy.