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.