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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 3, 2018

By Kīlauea September 3, 2018

Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone

 

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Hovering at about 180 m (600 ft), the Unmanned Aircraft Systems captured this view into the fissure 8 cinder cone. Lava has filled the small footprint-shaped crater inside the cone. Sluggish Pāhoehoe flows have crept across the floor but are not flowing into the spillway. Other vents were steaming due to the morning rains.
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Another UAS image captured early this morning looks directly down into the fissure 8 cone. The new lava is lighter in color compared to the older, darker lava farther down the spillway (left).
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During an overflight of fissure 8 this morning, HVO geologists observed low-level spattering on the new pad of lava within the cone. Slow-moving lava had just barely entered the spillway, but was not advancing down the channel.
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