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Continued overflows from the summit lava lake throughout the day

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The summit lava lake level remained high throughout the day, sending occasional overflows across the floor of Halema‘uma‘u Crater. In the upper left, a spatter site is pouring lava into a small overflow directed towards the north. In the bottom right, a passive overflow of the rim is sending a more sluggish overflow onto the floor. Just left of the center of the photo, a spatter site has constructed a spatter rampart on the lake margin.