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After its lava lake drained and the floor dropped, water has been pooling up in the bottom of Halema‘uma‘u crater for several months.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS photo by Matthew Patrick. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published May 8, 2020
Data acquired April 12, 2018 - May 3, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph