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Roiling Poás Volcano

The restless Costa Rican volcano sustains a hot, ultra-acidic crater lake that shares similarities to Martian environments.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Trevor Huxham. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published May 27, 2025
Data acquired March 5, 2025

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph