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An image of an incredibly rare, 65-foot-tall (20 meters) lava-dome fountain rising above the lava fields in Hawaii.

Posted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the image was taken in 1969, during the Mauna Ulu eruption, which lasted (on and off) for an astonishing five years, from May 1969 until July 1974.

Normally, volcanoes erupt lava in powerful jets that look like fountains gone wild. But in this photo the lava spurted out symmetrically, forming an unusual lava-dome fountain.