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Fresh Lava on Kilauea, Hawaii

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