SALT LAKE CITY — Steamboat Geyser might take a backseat to Old Faithful in terms of notoriety at Yellowstone National Park, but its eruptions are famously mysterious within the science community.
Steamboat Geyser, which is also the world's largest, has an odd pattern of eruptions. For instance, when it erupted in 2018, it was the first documented eruption in almost four years.
That's not uncommon because geysers are difficult to pinpoint, Michael Poland, the U.S. Geological Survey's scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said at the time. Steamboat Geyser just happens to have a different aura that intrigued the science community.