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Yesterday's lava flows in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō erupted from a vent at the NE e...

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Yesterday's lava flows in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō erupted from a vent at the northeast edge of the crater and added a new layer to the crater floor. This photograph looks northeast across the relatively smooth crater floor toward the vent that erupted, which is a spatter cone that appears as a faintly visible mound in the fume in the background.