Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 7, 2005

This is a photo of a stainless steel cable with hammer head on end lowered into lava through skylight along lava tube.

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Stainless steel cable with hammer head on end is lowered into lava through skylight along lava tube in east branch of PKK flow at 230-feet elevation below Pulama pali. Hoe handle is used to guided cable when pulled up. After a few seconds, to ensure that lava sticks to hammer head, cable is pulled up.

This is a photo of a lava sample being pulled out of skylight.

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Sample is pulled out of skylight, with cable draped over hoe handle. Retrieving sample from lava is tricky, for head or cable can snag as in fishing. Skilled operators are at work here.

This is a photo of a lava sample dropped into can of water to quench to glass.

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Sample is dropped into can of water to quench to glass. Rock hammer is used to break glass from cable. Sample will ultimately be used for chemical analysis.

This is a photo of a vents in Pu`u `O`o's crater.

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Later in day, overflight nicely shows all vents in Pu`u `O`o's crater. From lower left, East Pond Vent (big pit with lots of fume), January Vent (just beyond) East Pond Vent). South Wall Complex (almost lost in fume near crater wall,) Drainhole (standing my itself to right of South Wall Complex), Beehive (to right of Drainhole, with narrow plume of bluish fume), and West Gap (two spatter cones near right edge of image).