Pulp ......eruption!

This picture shows a close-up of the activity of a vent erupting blobs of blood-red basaltic magma at a temperature of approximately 1000°C. The picture was taken during the Mt. Etna 2001 eruption, one of the most important of this volcano in the last century: in fact, after prolonged magma accumulation, the eruption opened a new path for the rise of magma on the south flank, in addition to the already open central conduit. This eruption marked a new cycle in the recent life of Etna, lasting nearly two decades and being accompanied by significant flank slip and seismicity, also threatening the lower inhabited eastern slope.