Sicily - Mt. Etna Eruption Landscape NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks

NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was

weighing more than 100 times the mass of our Sun

which were therefore given longer exposure times (see PIA08362 and PIA08361)

The brilliant open star cluster is located about 200

These hefty stars are destined to pop off

Sicily - Mt. Etna Eruption Landscape NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeksOn October 28, 2002, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured this true color image of the ongoing eruption of Europes largest and most active volcano, Mt. Etna, on the island of Sicily. The volcanos thermal signature was detected by MODIS and is marked with a red overlay. On the northern slopes of the volcano, the thermal signature is possibly a second lava flow. A dense plume of what is likely ash