Colours of the Grand Prismatic Spring
by Ioannis Daglis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Colours of the Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The colours are due to microorganisms - mostly extreme thermophilic bacteria and archaea - that survive in the scalding water of the hot spring.
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- North America (751)
- Northern America (588)
- United States of America (391)
- Exact location (-110.8382 W, 44.5251 N)
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3888 × 2592 px;
image/jpeg; 4.0 MB
Camera:
Canon EOS 40D
Taken on 11
August
2009
Submitted on 15 February 2019
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Ioannis Daglis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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