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Coloring Lake Pontchartrain

Warm temperatures followed by an influx of nutrients sparked a series of phytoplankton blooms in the Louisiana lake.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 10, 2018
Data acquired March 3, 2018

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI