The space agency has a £2.7billion ($3.5billion) strategy to protect America and nearby nations from a catastrophic Yellowstone eruption.
An unpublished report seen by several media outlets concludes the best way for Nasa to stave off the threat of a super-eruption is to cool down the magma in the chambers inside the volcano.
Around 60 to 70 per cent of the heat generated by Yellowstone seeps into the atmosphere, but the remainder builds up inside and, if enough builds up, it can trigger an eruption.
By drilling 10 kilometres into Yellowstone, Nasa believes that it would be possible to pump high-pressure water which will allow the cool liquid to absorb some of the heat, before it is pumped out again.
Not only could this method be used to save the planet, but it could also be a great energy-generating tool.
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Brian Wilcox from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told the BBC: “Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh.
“[You would] get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years.
“And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago but a spike in seismic activity around the national park has unsettled nerves.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt it would kill an estimated 87,000 people immediately and make two-thirds of the USA immediately uninhabitable.
The as the large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a “nuclear winter” and threatening ALL life on earth.
The volcano is 80 km (50 mi) long 20 km (12 mi) wide and the 1500F chamber of molten rock beneath the surface is seven miles deep.
The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington’s Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.
Additionally, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.