Ahu'aila'au

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Ahu'aila'au

It’s hard for me to believe it’s been 5 years since I flew over Kilauea’s massive eruption in the Lower East Rift Zone at Ahu'aila'au (formerly known as Fissure 8), pictured here. My one and only lifetime to this date helicopter flight in the early morning of July 31st, 2018, saw very difficult visibility into the fissure itself. Weather was in the air and the gas plume from the eruption was thick and we couldn’t get over it to see safely from the FAA minimum altitude of 3,000 feet. In our parting view of the fissure I managed to catch this glimpse. After more than two months effusing 100 cubic meters per second, the effusion rate had already begun to drop off but was still maintaining a greater than 1000 foot wide river of lava. In the upper left of this view you can see into the crater where Kilauea’s summit reservoir was venting out, bubbling violently as the lava degassed. This photo like all my aerial photos from this trip is fraught with technical imperfections (sharp photography from helicopters is hard it turns out), but this might be my best view I captured of the fissure.

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Taken on: July 31, 2018
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Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3, f/5.6, 1/500 sec, 196mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3
Lens: FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length: 196mm
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: -0.7 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
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Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: sRGB
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