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Bloom in McMurdo Sound

Off the coast of Antarctica, vibrant green phytoplankton swirls amidst the sea ice.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photograph by Robert Dunbar, Stanford University. Text by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 28, 2020
Data acquired January 21, 2020

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Photograph