If you have been Yellowstone National Park, then you know it is a vast, beautiful place with some fairly odd geologic features that smell bad, like rotten eggs. If you’ve never been there, then you might just have a fairly apocalyptic view of it because of the supervolcano under it that has been featured in disaster movies.

Here’s a link to a short short introduction about what is above and below the surface.

Yellowstone World’s First National Park (National Geographic, YouTube)

Very informative, and the last line is key.

It must be seen and experienced to be believed and enjoyed.

National Geographic also made a “Virtual Yellowstone” 360° video.

Virtual Yellowstone 360° – Zen-Out at Yellowstone National Park (Nat Geo WILD, YouTube)

Here’s a link to a more specific coverage about the most famous geyser, Old Faithful, along with the 200 others in the park.

Old Faithful from the Air (Smithsonian Channel)

Here’s a link to another clip from the Smithsonian Channel about the current scientific understanding of the volcano.

Why Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Be Huge (Smithsonian Channel)

You can find out more about Yellowstone on these websites.

Yellowstone National Park (National Park Service)
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

You can also find out a ton more from these sources.

Yellowstone Supervolcano (Science News)
Yellowstone Supervolcano (Science Daily)
Yellowstone Supervolcano (Phys.org)
Yellowstone Volcano (JSTOR)
Yellowstone Volcano (NPR Archives)

Sometimes exploring news about Yellowstone can be interesting in unexpected ways. For example, I triped across a story about how studying life in Yellowstone’s toxic soup could help us find out if there’s life on Mars!

A Yellowstone guide to life on Mars (Michael Miller, Phys.org)

Neat stuff!

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