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The Shapes that Lavas Take, Part 1

Viscous, slow-moving lava flows form circular mounds known as lava domes.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the USGS Earth Explorer. Caption by Erik Klemetti (Denison University) and Adam Voiland (Earth Observatory).

Published November 21, 2013
Data acquired May 13, 2013

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Landsat 8 > OLI