Fresh lava flows radiate from Kilauea’s Pu’su ’O’o, crater, as the Volcano’s longstanding eruption continues.
Published Nov 13, 2011
Fresh lava flows cover the slopes of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano.
Published Nov 4, 2010
Low-viscosity lava flows produce long, narrow shapes on the landscape.
Published Nov 22, 2013
Molten rock meets the sea in the latest episode in a long-lived eruption.
Published Nov 20, 2016
Overlapping lava flows on Kilauea Volcano illustrate the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
Published Jan 5, 2013
A 1666 eruption in what is now the northeast corner of Lassen Volcanic National Park flattened forests and created a new lake.
Published Mar 11, 2018
A team of NASA scientists headed to Holuhraun because the volcano has geologic cousins on Mars.
Published Oct 9, 2018
The Holuhraun lava field in Iceland continues to grow.
Published Jan 8, 2015
Old, hardened lava flows extend from the caldera of Medicine Lake volcano in northern California.
Published Oct 10, 2017
In south-central New Mexico, a charcoal-brown scar undulates across the arid landscape.
Published Jul 26, 2009
Kilauea erupted enough lava to fill 45,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
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This "kipuka" in Craters of the Moon National Monument is an area of undisturbed grassland surrounded by a lava flow.
Published Oct 14, 2009
Satellite view of fresh lava flows from recent activity at Kilaue’s Pu’u O’o Crater.
Published Sep 9, 2011
The landscape is a recently formed set of basaltic lava flows that creates a foreboding landscape of sharp obsidian, cinder and spatter cones, twisted rivers of solidified rock, pit craters, and a network of caves from lava tubes.
Published Oct 16, 2005
A river of red and black lava marks the site of Nyamurigira’s latest eruption.
Published Nov 16, 2011
