# @usgs on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIUA-j3uzST
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69013892-usgs-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-11T16:19:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (@USGS) — https://gondola.cc/USGS

## Caption

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, overlooks the arches, canyons, and bizarre rock formations that prevail throughout this region as well as the Green River and the Colorado River which meet within the park. 

Green: Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. The dark water of the Suwannee River flows from the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia to the Gulf of America in Florida. The river’s inky color comes from decaying vegetation at the river’s swampy source. 

Blue: Mount Rainier, Washington. Fluorescent colors dominate this dreamlike scene. The orange shapes look like glowfish in a fanciful underwater world. Those glowfish are actually clouds, and the neon green represents mountains, including Mount Rainier, near Seattle, Washington. 

Violet: The dry landscape of rocky buttes in southern Utah and northeastern Arizona. The light vertical feature at the top of the image is referred to as Comb Ridge, a jagged fold in the Earth's crust called a monocline.

#EveryDayIsEarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Rainbow #Satelite #Landsat #NASAEarth #NASA #RemoteSensing

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