However, rarely does NASA get such a unique view of the volcano, with the latest snapshot taken by NASA s Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 satellite.
One image taken on February 18 shows red lava trickling down the side of the volcano located on the isle of Sicily.
NASA said: At the time, lava from Southeast Crater was flowing southward and eastward from the summit. The natural-colour image is overlaid with infrared data from OLI showing the location of warm areas associated with lava.
Mt Etna has seen heightened activity for the past few weeks (Image: GETTY)
Mt Etna seen on February 18 (Image: NASA)
2Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Long-term urban land use land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and climate change trends in Southwest Ethiopia s four urban centers were examined for 60 years. Remote sensing, aerial photos, and Landsat, temperature, and rainfall data were analyzed from a climate change perspective over the Jimma, Bedelle, Bonga, and Sokorru urban centers of southwest Ethiopia from 1953 to 2018. Based on geospatial analysis and maximum likelihood supervised image classification techniques to classify LULCC categories, the Mann-Kendall test was applied to perform trend analyses on temperature and rainfall. The LULCC analysis revealed that built-up areas over the urban centers had shown an increasing trend, with the highest increment by 2,360 hectares over Jimma, while vegetation, wetland, and cropland declined due to conversion of plain lands to built-up areas