Two vents in the Fuego summit crater were active simultaneously at the time of this 24 February 1978 aerial photograph. A small ash plume rises above the vent at the far side of the crater, while the vent in the foreground ejects lava spatter. This vent feeds a degassing and faintly incandescent lava flow that can be seen to the lower right.

Photo by Bill Rose, 1978 (Michigan Technological University).

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Keywords: eruption | ash plume | ash | gas | lava flow | spatter

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