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Turns out rainbows can be created from the geology of our nation itself! Can you guess where each stunning photo comes from? Let us help you out. Our Landsat program, in partnership with NASA, continually captures the surface of the Earth with satellites circling the planet about 14 times per day. Each masterpiece pictured is a unique geological feature or ecological event from the U.S. and surrounding ocean captured by Landsat and recolored for our Earth as Art program. Check the link in today's USGS story for more Earth as Art! Red: Desolation Canyon, Utah. Nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon, Desolation Canyon is one of the largest unprotected wilderness areas in the American West. Orange: Milford Lake, Kansas. Algal blooms, like this one recolored in orange, occur annually on the lake in the summer and can be harmful to fragile wetland ecosystems. Yellow: Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Snow-covered Mount Waas, shown in light blue on the right side of the image, overlook...

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