Seen here with its explosive summit socked away in the clouds, Mount Etna towers over the Italian isle of Sicily as the tallest volcano in Europe—and maybe the crankiest, given its near-constant eruptions. The island peak has been highly active for perhaps half a million years and can still be counted on for a spectacular eruption now and then. This photograph shows Etna erupting in 2013, but it blasted back into life again in February 2021, sending lava, ash, and smoke into the sky for weeks.
A sizzling summit hides in the clouds
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Bardenas Reales Biosphere Reserve and Natural Park, Spain
-
And the skies filled with bats…
-
Pont Rouge
-
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
-
World Turtle Day
-
Kirkjufell, Iceland
-
Yellow-eyed penguins, Moeraki, New Zealand
-
International Rock Day
-
Nesting season for the leatherbacks
-
A crested partridge
-
Steyr River, Austria
-
Happy New Year!
-
Bear watching in the Finnish forest
-
Bangkok, Thailand
-
Aerial view of the ruins of Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Peru
-
Darwin s Arch
-
A city of bridges
-
Hooray, hooray, it s Unicorn Day!
-
World Water Day
-
European river otter, Netherlands
-
Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
-
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
-
The Matterhorn reflected in Lake Stellisee at sunrise, Zermatt, Switzerland
-
Happy Juneteenth!
-
Hay bales in North Yorkshire, England
-
National Panda Day
-
Humpback whales in Maui, Hawaii
-
Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia
-
A Eurasian red squirrel in Switzerland
-
Spring comes to the Palouse
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

