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Infared satellite imagery shows how lava tubes carry molten basalt from Pu'u 'O'o to the coastal plain.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Photograph courtesy USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Caption by Robert Simmon.

Published October 23, 2012
Data acquired October 13, 2012

Source:
EO-1 > ALI