Images

This is a steep aerial view of the small lava pond at the top of the spatter cone on the northeastern side of the crater floor. Lava in the pond flows directly into a lava tube which is supplying the active flow northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The head of the tube, marked by fume, extends from the pond toward the left side of the photo.

This is another of the spatter cones on the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. This one, on the northeast side of the crater floor, has long had an open top with a view of a small lava lake.

Some of the recent overflows at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō traveled to the southeast. This photo shows those overflows, which comprise several dark-colored channelized flows.

The "spillway"—Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's eastern flank—has been buried by flows fed mostly from a spatter cone on the northeastern side of the crater floor. Most of the dark-colored lava in the foreground is new lava that has resurfaced the spillway. The fume to the left is the trace of the Peace Day tube, newly covered by crater overflows, currently carrying lava to the coast.

The lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u remains poised at a relatively high level within the Overlook pit. The lake level dropped over the weekend. Though rising again now, it has not yet reached last week's level.

This image was captured on Wednesday, February 13, by the Advanced Land Imager sensor aboard NASA's Earth Observing 1 satellite. Although this is a false-color image, the color map has been chosen to mimic what the human eye would expect to see. Bright red pixels depict areas of very high temperatures, and show active or very recently active lava flows.

Highway 504 is shown in upper right.

A small lava lake, which has been present on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor for nearly a year, has evolved into a tiny pond perched several meters (yards) above the surrounding crater floor, as pictured here. The pond sits near the top of a mound of lava composed of spatter cones and lava pond overflows.

A small lava lake, which has been present on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor for nearly a year, has evolved into a tiny pond perched several meters (yards) above the surrounding crater floor, as pictured here. The pond sits near the top of a mound of lava composed of spatter cones and lava pond overflows.

Lava from the tiny lava pond flows directly into a tube on its north side. In this photo, the tube starts at the left edge of the pond and heads toward the heavy fume at the left edge of the photo.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

A small lava lake, which has been present on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor for nearly a year, has evolved into a tiny pond perched several meters (yards) above the surrounding crater floor, as pictured here. The pond sits near the top of a mound of lava composed of spatter cones and lava pond overflows.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

Surveying A Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) program study site in the Chandeleur Islands in 2013. The survey data is used to map the pre-storm conditions.
 

Since the beginning of the year, lava erupting from several openings in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater have filled the crater to overflowing. The two eastern-most openings, topped by spatter cones, can be seen in this photo. The one in the background holds the small lava pond shown in the photos above and feeding the northern lava flow.

This photo, identical to the previous one, just includes labels for the flows that spilled from the northern and southern sides of the crater.

The eastern rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is no longer visible, having been buried by flows mostly from the small lava lake on the northeast side of the crater floor. A mound of lava with a complex of spatter cones, visible in the background, now surrounds the lava lake, which is only visible from the air.

The lava flow fed the northeastern lava lake in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō remains weakly active at the northern base of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone. The front of the flow is burning lichen on old ‘A‘ā flows erupted from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō during 1983-1986. The eastern edge of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is at the upper right side of the photo.

The lava flow fed the northeastern lava lake in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō remains weakly active at the northern base of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone. The front of the flow is burning lichen on old ‘A‘ā flows erupted from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō during 1983-1986. The eastern edge of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is at the upper right side of the photo.

Lava flows have spilled from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater over the past few weeks. One flow went out the southern end of the crater and traveled a short distance downslope to the southeast before stopping.