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Reddish brown rocks sit on a slope with tufts of green grass. A bit of haze rises from the rocks.

Fumarole

Vapors rise from small cracks in the Earth's crust, called fumaroles, in Rincon de la Vieja National Park, Costa Rica. These fumaroles vent gases from the volcanic system underneath, which passively emits gases like carbon dioxide, which NASA's CRATER project set out to measure.

Image Credit: NASA/Milan Loiacono
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