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Liquid Lava on Mount Etna
Photo: Contrast of liquid and molten lava on Mount Etna
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A few hundred degrees separates this pool of fiery orange magma in Italy’s Mount Etna from its hardened, gray crust. At nearly 11,000 feet (3,353 meters), Mount Etna is Europe’s highest active volcano.
Photograph by Carsten Peter

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