The image, which resembles an elephant’s head, was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment and has appeared on news sites like Discovery News, MSN.com, and Yahoo! News.

The lava has moved at an average speed of about 39 feet per hour, and it could take an additional 20 hours to reach the main road at that speed, the meteorological office said.

An annotated NASA Landsat 8 image showing a two-mile-long lava flow coursing down the southwestern flank of Mount Etna on February 13. NASA / U.S. Geological Survey ...

Stunning images show volcano on uninhabited Galapagos island erupting, sending lava flowing to sea. Updated: Mar. 04, ... lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbled down its sides toward the sea.

Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove captured the video on Aug. 28 after flying his drone above the crater of the volcano as it was spewing thick rivers of molten lava from beneath the Earth’s surface.

The true-color Sentinel-2 image shows the flow of lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which extends all the way into the Atlantic Ocean—a distance of around 3.7 miles, according to the ESA.

Europa Press News/Getty Images. By Thursday, September 23, the lava flow's advancement slowed, along with the seismic activity, but molten rock was still spewing from the volcano, per the ...

This image, captured on Nov. 13 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, has been processed using the mission’s shortwave-infrared bands to show the lava flow at the time of acquisition. (Image ...

Venus likely has active volcanoes, flowing streams of lava An analysis of 1990s-era data from the Magellan mission adds to the evidence that enigmatic Venus is an active world.

The lava is flowing out of Fissure 3 in the northeast rift zone and is now just 3.6 miles from Saddle Road, a main highway that runs east to west through the center of the island and a route often ...

On the day that the image was taken, the lava flow covered a two-mile-long course from the Bocca Nuova crater—one of five at Etna's summit—down the volcano's southwestern flank.