Spectacular Orange Lava Flows Stream From Europe's Largest Active Volcano, Mount Etna
An eruption of Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily, produced a spectacular lava show that turned part of Europe's largest active volcano orange. The eruption began on Friday from a rupture at about 3,000 meters of altitude. By Monday, the lava had descended to 2,700 meters, according to the Etna Observatory of the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. Excursions are popular on Etna, which is some 3,300 meters (nearly 11,000 feet) high, with a surface area of some 1,200 square kilometers (about 460 square miles.)
