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Incandescent skylights adorn the spatter cone and the lava tube in ...

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Incandescent skylights adorn the spatter cone and the lava tube in this close shot of the source for the Kahauale‘a 2 flow. The lighter-colored flows in the foreground are recent flows which broke out from the near side of the spatter cone. Webcams and other monitoring equipment dot the north rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō in the background.