Venus rising over Haleakala, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.

12 January 2013
Venus rising over Haleakala, 6 AM, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.
Venus rising over Haleakala, 6 AM, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.

12 January 2013
Haleakala Crater viewed from the summit Visitor Center. The gray linear features extending downslope into the summit basin are debris trains and active slides, fine-grained material actively creeping downslope.
A closer view of the extinct "parasitic cones" (tree-covered hilltops marked by arrows) located along the axis of the Northwest Rift Zone on the flanks of Haleakala volcano.

Photograph taken from a boat just offshore of Kihei on Ma'alaea Bay, south Maui.
Clouds encroaching on the eastern rim of the crater rim and the Haleakala Summit Basin. Haleakala National Park, south Maui.
Silversword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense macrocephalum) growing near the summit of Haleakala volcano, south Maui.
The leaves of an immature Silversword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense macrocephalum) display their geometrically intricate arrangement around the central stalk of the plant. The summit caldera of Haleakala volcano, Haleakala National Park, south Maui.
About the size of a softball baseball, immature Silverswords (Argyroxiphium sandwicense macrocephalum) plants are scattered around the summit caldera of Haleakala volcano, south Maui.
Venus rising over Haleakala, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.

12 January 2013
Venus rising over Haleakala, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.

12 January 2013
Venus rising over Haleakala, seen from Ma'alaea Bay.

12 January 2013
See photo in original gallery.