It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years. Unlike normal volcanoes, which tend to produce large cone-shaped mountains made of ash and lava, supervolcano eruptions (defined being at least an 8 on the
Neat. I would have said no, given the size and scope of Yellowstone’s magma.
Seemingly impossible tasks are no problem for the folks at JPL.
The unspoken side effect would likely be the destruction of all the natural geysers that make Yellowstone what it is.
Yes, but if you don’t then it could all get destroyed by one giant geyser that happens to shoot lava.
If there is one thing humans are good at, it is doing the seemingly impossible. For better or worse.