A Colorful Glimpse

A satellite image reveals the blue and green swirls of a phytoplankton bloom.

Peeking between the clouds, satellites caught a glimpse of a massive phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Greenland in May 2024. The tiny organisms may be visible only under a microscope, but gatherings like these stretch hundreds of kilometers and are visible from space. Like tracer particles in a flow, the phytoplankton outline the swirls and eddies of the underlying ocean. (Image credit: L. Dauphin; via NASA Earth Observatory)

A satellite image reveals the blue and green swirls of a phytoplankton bloom.
A satellite image reveals the blue and green swirls of a phytoplankton bloom.

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