Sizing up Mauna Loa’s Lava Flows

Airborne mapping of the thickness of the lava flows helped scientists calculate that 230 million cubic meters of molten rock poured from the volcano during the two-week eruption.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using GLISTEN-A UAVSAR data courtesy of Paul Lundgren/NASA JPL-Caltech, Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). USGS photo by K. Lynn. Story by Sally Younger with Adam Voiland. Fact checking by Hannah Dietterich (USGS).

Published December 16, 2022
Data acquired December 7, 2022

Sources:

Aircraft Sensors > UAVSAR

Landsat 8 > OLI

Photograph

Space Shuttle > SRTM

Collection:

Science in Action