A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth Lakes

What Happened

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search Overlapping volcanic complexes shape the eastern Sierra Nevada in this image acquired on March 29, 2026, by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9.

Why It Matters

NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin Take a tour through volcanic history on the edge of the Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes, California.

Key Details

Between the tall granite peaks to the west and the Basin and Range province to the east, overlapping volcanic complexes imprint the landscape with a collection of craters, cones, and calderas.
The area, still restless today, draws interest from geologists studying Earth’s processes and from planetary scientists exploring its commonalities with volcanic terrain elsewhere in our solar system.
A string of volcanic features between Mono Lake and Mammoth Mountain is visible along the left side of this Landsat image.
Known as the Mono-Inyo Craters, this chain of about three dozen lava domes, lava flows, and tephra rings formed within the past 10,000 years.

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