Lake Vaihiria is a muddy-green crater lake surrounded by low trees and is more the destination than the highlight.

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Worth it for the crater lake alone, it is interesting to see bustling of villages so close to a potentially murderous natural wonder.

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Or park up at the lakeside Rancho Alegre Restaurant for the night and swim in El Salvador's most spectacular crater lake, Lago de Coatepeque.

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The crater under Lake Malaren is about 10km from three heating plants that supply Stockholm with warmth.

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Here, the statues were abandoned in the middle of frantic construction, along with elaborate stone carvings, caves, and a perfect volcanic crater filled with an iridescent lake.

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Dr Bodenschatz and his team are now scrutinising video footage of the lava lake in the Kilauea crater in Hawaii, to see if its zig-zags are produced by the same pattern of cooling and plate-spreading that is observed in the wax.

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While some 9, 000 people have been helping in the clear-up and rescue operation, scientists have been concentrating their search for fragments of the rock around Chebarkul Lake, where a 6m (20ft) wide crater had been found following the strike.

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Prof Squyres showed a comparison of the Whitewater Lake outcrop and rocks found at the location Curiosity is exploring in Gale Crater.

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Detailed studies of the surface indicate that these were formed by a lake caused by the flow of underground water that periodically made its way to the bottom of the crater.

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Local police described how one piece smashed into the ground near Lake Chebarkul, throwing up a column of ice, water and steam and creating a 26-foot crater.

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