Here at Bing, we’re big fans of national parks. So, when National Park Week comes around, we join with so many others in celebrating ‘America’s best idea.’ National Park Week is an annual celebration of national parks sponsored by the National Park Foundation and National Park Service. This year we’re celebrating by featuring a homepage image of a different national park for each day of the festivities, starting with the granddaddy of US national parks–Yellowstone. This is the Grand Prismatic Spring, a hot spring at Yellowstone that spans 370 feet in diameter and reaches depths of 160 feet, making it the largest hot spring in the US and the third largest in the world. The rainbow of vivid colors is created by heat-loving bacteria that reside in the water. Come back tomorrow to see where we go next.
Celebrating National Park Week, April 21-29
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
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Evidence of human habitation
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Winterpret on ice
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Aerial view of a heart-shaped field in Trittau, Germany
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San Francisco Bay salt flats
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I m here! Take a look at me!
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Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
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Trunks stick together
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Greetings from Asbury Park
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Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Bobbio, Italy
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Stuben am Arlberg, Austria
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Twosday
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Think deep thoughts
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Daylight saving time
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Sand, sun, and sk8ers
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Devetashka Cave, Devetaki, Bulgaria
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Old Fortress, Corfu, Greece
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Lei Day in Hawaii
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A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
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Happy winter solstice!
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Infrared Jupiter, erupting Io
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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An ancient sailing tradition takes to the water
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Talampaya National Park, Argentina
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Giving Tuesday
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Cable car station, Graubünden, Switzerland
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Caribbean flamingos, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
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Mangrove Conservation Day
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A river runs through it