Aniruddha Sharma

Morning Glory Pool is considered the most beautiful pool and a must-see of Yellowstone National Park. Its colours are because of the existence of heat-thriving bacteria, making a stunning display of hues. The delicate blue water is created by thermophilic bacteria, which thrive in the pool’s searing heat.

Over the years people threw coins, bottles and trash in the pool, reducing its flow and causing the red and orange bacteria to creep in from its edge, replacing the blue bacteria that thrive in the hotter water at the center of the pool.

The trash has slowly built up and blocked some of the thermal vents and reduced the heat of the pool, allowing other bacteria to begin working their way in at the edges, creating a red and yellow ring around the pure blue center. While this rainbow hue is indeed beautiful, it is a fragile beauty, as the invasive yellow bacteria continues to close in.

(via xdreams-be-dreamsx)

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    Every since reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History To Nearly Everything, I have profound fascination with Yellowstone -...

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    i had a dream of somewhere like this

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    What … I’ve been to Yellowstone, I didn’t see no Morning Glory pool.

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    the earth never ceases to amaze me…and neither does the stupidity of man

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