| The site in Haleakala Crater so resembles the face of the moon that astronauts preparing for the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 spent a day hiking there. From its rim, Haleakala Crater seems an eerie landscape, where cinder cones rise a thousand feet above the crater floor, and rivers of frozen lava attest to the island’s fiery birth in the not-so-distant past. Yet plants and animals thrive here that are found nowhere else on earth. |  |
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