Geology Picture of the Week, June 7-13, 2009: Cauldron of Kilauea

Hawaii Volcano Observatory (images) ^ | June 3, 2009 | USGS

[cogitator]

The picture isn't that spectacular; the video (in Quicktime) is. When I saw this I knew it had to be a Geopic of the week (sorry I'm late). The movie is in real-time. Turn up the sound. If you're wondering what this is, it's a view down the throat of the Hale'maumau vent. I wonder if this will eventually rise and fill the crater floor, even if only briefly -- that would be a sight.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2009/Jun/HMMvent_03June2009web3.mov

[cogitator]

This would be an optimum place to appease Pele (the Hawaiian volcano goddess, not the superstar soccer player).

[cogitator]

** do not jump or dive into this PING **

[al baby]

Or to sacrifice a virgin

[Young Werther]

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The 23rd Bomb Squadron patch displays bombs being dropped on a volcano commemorating a lava-bombing mission Dec. 27, 1935. When the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii erupted, threatening the city of Hilo, six Keystone B-6 bombers from the 23rd BS used precision bombing tactics to drop twenty bombs in the path of the volcano’s lava flow to save the city of Hilo by diverting the lava away from the city

Then Now

[EverOnward]

It’s ferociously beautiful. Thanks for the pic.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I am sitting here listing to lord of the rings theme songs looking at a real life caves of Mount Doom.

thanks :)