
Etna outbreak
In the middle of March mount Etna has been systematically erupting for several days. The first eruption has been recorded on Wednesday March 15th (11:30 am local time) and the activity has spread until a second outbreak on Saturday, with a series of pyroclastic flows, up to the next Monday (March 20th). A few persons got

Italy imaged by Proba-V
A false-colour image of Italy, as seen in infrared by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation shown in red, mountain area in red–brown and built-up areas as green. Proba-V is a miniaturized ESA satellite (launched on 7 May 2013) smaller than a cubic meter with the objective to map land cover and vegetation growth across the

Dead Sea and thermal inertia
Sentinel 3-A SLSTR thermal bands allow us to have an excerpt on the phenomenon of thermal inertia and heat transfer involving the land masses and oceans on our Planet. The thermal inertia is the propensity of heat to transfer between two different materials or bodies. Indeed each material has a different specific heat capacity (namely