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Blooming in the South Atlantic

Phytoplankton explode in population along the shelf-break front off Argentina.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Blooming in the South Atlantic.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published December 1, 2013
Data acquired November 26, 2013

Source:: Terra > MODIS