A team of NASA scientists headed to Holuhraun because the volcano has geologic cousins on Mars.
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Low-viscosity lava flows produce long, narrow shapes on the landscape.
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Fresh lava flows cover the slopes of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano.
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Although the basaltic rock formed a hard crust, the flow is likely hot enough to prevent snow from building up on top.
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Fresh lava flows radiate from Kilauea’s Pu’su ’O’o, crater, as the Volcano’s longstanding eruption continues.
Satellite view of fresh lava flows from recent activity at Kilaue’s Pu’u O’o Crater.
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In western New Mexico, the landscape’s long volcanic history can be explored above and below the ground.
Molten rock meets the sea in the latest episode in a long-lived eruption.
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Viscous, slow-moving lava flows form circular mounds known as lava domes.
Overlapping lava flows on Kilauea Volcano illustrate the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
Piton de la Fournaise erupts almost every year, primarily from the lava shield named Dolomieu. A January 2009 image of this volcano shows signs of previous volcanic activity.
The Holuhraun lava field in Iceland continues to grow.
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In September 2007, a series of explosive eruptions altered the summit of the volcano, the only one that erupts natrocarbonatite lava.
In early November 2008, a volcano erupted in the Erta Ale Range in northeastern Ethiopia, producing a fresh lava flow.
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The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.
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A river of red and black lava marks the site of Nyamurigira’s latest eruption.
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Fresh debris avalanches and a growing lava dome on Mount Shiveluch illustrate some of the processes that build stratovolcanoes.