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Satellites Track Yellowstone’s Underground Heat

Landsat instruments have peered into the hot-water plumbing beneath some of the park’s famous monuments.


NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat-derived geothermal measurements provided by Shannon Savage, Montana State University. Caption by Ellen Gray and Michael Carlowicz.

Published December 8, 2011
Data acquired July 17, 1986 - June 25, 2007

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+