During a helicopter overflight around 7:30 a.m. HST on February 3, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews observed weak spattering in the north vent of the 2024-2025 Kīlauea summit eruption. The previous eruptive episode ended on January 28, and renewed glow from the vents overnight and weak spattering indicated that another eruptive episode could begin (Episode 8 began at 9:52 p.m. on February 3). Field crews noted that within the north vent, a spatter cone has built up from this recent increase in activity. USGS photo by K. Lynn.

During a monitoring overflight on February 3, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory crews had excellent views of Kīlauea's west crater walls, where tephra deposits have been exposed following the collapse of the summit in 2018. This image shows talus (rock debris from the crater walls) surrounding a triangle-shaped exposure of tephra that is many meters thick. USGS photo by K. Lynn.

With quite clear conditions on the morning of February 3, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory crews on a monitoring overflight of Kīlauea summit had excellent views of the snow-capped Mauna Kea (shown here) and Mauna Loa. Both mountain summits received snow during a winter storm that passed over the Island of Hawai‘i last week. USGS photo by K. Lynn.