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30th Anniversary of the Pu’u ’O’o Eruption on Kilauea

Overlapping lava flows on Kilauea Volcano illustrate the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story 30th Anniversary of the Pu’u ’O’o Eruption on Kilauea.

Satellite image by Robert Simmon, based on Worldview-2 data copyright 2011 DigitalGlobe. Aerial photograph from the USGS Earth Explorer. Caption by Robert Simmon.
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Published January 5, 2013
Data acquired June 6, 2011

Sources:: DigitalGlobe > WorldView-2; Photograph