Hazards: Volcanoes

	Etna Overview, Italy, July 2001 This four-meter resolution satellite image of the top of Mount Etna, Sicily was collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite on July 31, 2001. The image shows the prominent white smoke plume rising from the volcano. Etna has been spewing molten lava, ash and rock from fractures on its southern slope for the last two weeks, forcing a state of emergency in the surrounding area.		Etna, Italy, October 2000 This four-meter resolution satellite image of the top of Mount Etna, Sicily was collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite on Oct. 16, 2000.
	Nyiragongo, Africa, 2002		Goma, Kongo, 2002
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