
Blowing 'smoke': Mount Etna puts on a show by emitting rare rings into the sky
Fox News
Europe's largest active volcano, Mount Etna in Italy, has been emitting "smoke rings" since last week, putting on a spectacular show for tourists and locals alike.
Pictures and video show the volcano looking like a chimney blowing out a stream of rings.
"Etna is breaking all previous records," Boris Behncke, volcanologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania Boris, explained in a Facebook post. "In the late afternoon of 2 April 2024, a small mouth opened on the north-eastern rim of the South-East Crater, producing puffs of glowing gas. By the next morning it was evident that these puffs were producing an impressive amount of steam rings, and this activity has been going on ever since, having already emitted hundreds if not thousands of these pretty rings."