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ERS data 'breathes' life into Etna

20 December 2002

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Animation showing terrain displacement of Mount Etna, 1992-2000. Click to begin animation.

Credits: JPL

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Etna eruptions continue in early December 2002

Credits: Courtesy of P. Chastanet

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Footprints in the snow and ash of Etna, December 2002

Credits: Courtesy of P. Chastanet

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Proba image, acquired 30 October 2002, shows the volcano's plume of smoke and ash. The Project for On-Board Autonomy (Proba) is a technology demonstration mission of the European Space Agency.

CHRIS is a push-broom spectrometer capable of imaging up to 200 spectral bands in the visible range. Together with the scanning and manoeuvring capabilities of the spacecraft it supports Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurements used in land, sea and atmospheric observations.

Credits: ESA

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