There’s a New Hole in the Ground at Yellowstone National Park
The park’s newest hydrothermal feature has an otherworldly milky texture from dissolved silica A new thermal pool in the Porcelain Basin area of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, shown here, likely formed in a series of mildly explosive events between late December 2024 and early February 2025. There’s a new milky blue pool in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone geologists discovered the baby hydrothermal feature in April while doing routine work at Norris Geyser Basin, the