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Living the Lava Life on Mauna Loa

A small research station in Hawaii where analog astronauts simulate living and working on the Moon or Mars is out of harm’s way after a lava flow appeared to be headed in its direction.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial photographs courtesy of Jordan Lerma and Andrzej Stewart. Story by Adam Voiland

Published December 5, 2022
Data acquired December 2, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Photograph