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Phytoplankton Factory in the Argentine Sea

In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation from Barney Balch (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Ana Dogliotti (Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics-CONICET/UBA), and Vivian Lutz (CONICET/INIDEP).

Published January 8, 2021
Data acquired January 2 - 5, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS