Mount Taranaki, capped white with snow, is the centerpoint for Egmont National Park. The borders of the park are clearly discernable from space as the land goes from primarily being the light green color of farmland to dark green forested in a perfect ring around the mountain peak. Smaller peaks to the upper left of the image are also forest covered, and some sections around the park remain forested as well, but the land is otherwise, primarily, light green.

Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest

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

Credits: NASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei Liang
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TakenJune 10, 2023
Image CreditNASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei Liang
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