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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world -
Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. -
The vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water.
Grand Prismatic Spring
United States