Aerial view of the Kīlauea summit on Dec. 21, showing the two fissures pouring lava into the growing lava lake. As of the morning of Dec. 22, the lava lake had already filled 134 meters (440 feet) of the bottom of Halema’uma’u crater in the summit caldera. Credit: M. Patrick, USGS
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