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Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest

The precise geometry of the protected area encompassing an iconic New Zealand volcano is unmistakable from space.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Kathrin & Stefan Marks, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivs 2.0 Generic. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published September 21, 2024
Data acquired June 10, 2023

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Photograph