Cedar Breaks National Monument

NASA

An Amphitheater of Rock at Cedar Breaks

When people stand at the rim of the amphitheater in Utah’s Cedar Breaks National Monument and look down on an otherworldly landscape of multicolored rock spires, pinnacles, and other geologic oddities, they’re looking across tens of millions of years of Earth’s history. The same can be said when viewing the bowl-shaped escarpment from space. The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this view of the amphitheater’s…