West Rim View - Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA

From the northwest rim of Kīlauea's summit caldera, on Hawaii Island, this camera looks straight across into Halemaʻumaʻu crater, where steam drifts over the dark crater floor and lava glows red during eruptions.

Scientists have watched this volcano closely for more than a century. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory was set up here in 1912, and its old buildings on the caldera rim were damaged when the summit collapsed during the 2018 eruption.

Just east of the summit lies Kīlauea Iki crater. In 1959 it held a fiery lava lake, and today a trail crosses its hardened floor, about 400 feet (120 m) below the rim, where steam still rises from the cracks.

Did You Know? During the 1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption, one lava fountain shot 1,900 feet (580 m) into the air, one of the highest ever seen in Hawaii.

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