Corsica, Sardinia and Italy

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Italy
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

MODIS captured this true-color image of Italy and nearby islands on June 5, 2001. The islands pictured from bottom to top are Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Both Sicily and Sardinia are Italian islands, while Corsica is a French island.

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Maps of Italy

Lake Garda, Italy

high resolution land image (1.5 MB) high resolution water image (0.6 MB) This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal...

Eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna

The height and southward extent of the ash plume emanating from Sicilys Mount Etna volcano on...

Eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna

Etna Flyover. These images from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) capture the energetic eruption of Sicilys...

Ash Plume Streams from Mount Etna, Sicily

When this southward-looking photograph was taken by the Expedition 2 crew aboard the International Space Station,...

Eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna

Italys Mount Etna is the focus of this 3-D perspective view made from data collected by...

Eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna

Italys Aeolian Islands and Mount Etna are the focus of this 3-D perspective view made from...

Watery Gem of Northern Italy, the City of Venice

The compact Italian city of Venice with its renowned canals is situated on a small, fish-shaped...

Zoom into Mount Etna

On July 29, 2001, emergency workers in Sicily, Italy, were working round the clock to reinforce...

Napoli and Volcanism - Vesuvius and Mount Etna

For more than 240 million years the region now known as Italy has been the scene...

Corsica, Sardinia and Italy