This graphic of the growing lava dome at Mount St. Helens is based on daily photographs taken by an automated digital camera system on Sugar Bowl Dome, located at the crater mouth about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-northeast of the vent. The Sugar Bowl "DomeCam", designed by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and loaned to us for our eruption, was installed on October 10, 2004. It takes one image every 3 minutes and relays one image back to the Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) every hour. The composite following is monthly views from that camera.
[CLICK for these and other views from the Sugar Bowl Remote Camera.]
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