Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest

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

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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