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Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
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This ASTER image of Mt. Vesuvius Italy was acquired September 26, 2000, and covers an area of 36 by 45 km. Vesuvius overlooks the city of Naples and the Bay of Naples in central Italy. In 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted cataclysmically, burying all of the surrounding cites with up to 30 m of ash. The towns of Pompeii and Herculanaeum were rediscovered in the 18th century, and excavated in the 20th century.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMt. Vesuvius, Italy. NASA/JPL, 2001-10-22. Public domain. ID: PIA11091.
