Colours of the Grand Prismatic Spring
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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Reuse
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Ioannis Daglis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
4.0 MB
Width
3888 px
Height
2592 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 40D
Exposure
70 mm f/22 1/200 s ISO 320
Taken
11 August 2009
Coordinates
44.5251, -110.8382
Tint
Vivid reddish orange
Submitted
15 February 2019
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