A Spectacle of Color off the Shetland Islands

Phytoplankton imparted brilliant blues and greens to North Sea waters near the Scottish archipelago in June 2025.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation provide by Eileen Bresnan/Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government; Richard Renshaw/Met Office; Callum Whyte and Keith Davidson/Scottish Association for Marine Science, and Peter Miller/Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Published June 21, 2025
Data acquired June 13, 2025

Source:

Landsat 9 > OLI-2