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View looking nearly straight down into open top of a spatter cone b...

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View looking nearly straight down into the open top of a spatter cone built over the September 21 fissure on Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's east flank. The brighter, yellowish zone is the surface of the active lava stream as it flows downslope (toward the top of the photo).