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Early Earth
DECEMBER 2006
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Hell on Earth
Photograph by Frans Lanting
A scene from early Earth unfolds from the rim of Pu'u 'Ō'ō crater on Hawaii's Big Island. Lava that bursts from spatter cones in the distance has filled the crater floor and cooled into a fractured gray crust. Over and over in early Earth history its surface cooled and hardened, only to be melted again by giant impacts from space.
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