A Hot-Spring Constellation in Snow

A vast snow plateau at blue hour, dotted with a small constellation of irregular steaming hot springs. Each pool has dark turquoise water and a narrow warm mineral-orange rim, linked only by natural branching meltwater channels under thin ice. A single low wooden research shelter sits far away near the horizon, its one window glowing warmly. View from a gentle elevated slope; foreground snow retains wind-carved ridges, steam drifts in a consistent direction. Quiet speculative winter landscape with realistic hydrothermal geology and restrained light, cinematic panoramic spacing, no aurora, no text.