Sulphur dioxide concentrations from Mount Etna’s eruption

On 5 June 2026, the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission captured sulphur dioxide concentrations from the latest Mount Etna’s eruption, which threw large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. 

Sulphur dioxide is released from a volcano when magma is relatively close to the surface.

A capture from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission offers an optical view of the eruption on the same day.