Cruise Track (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Cruise Track

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Looking at our planet from the right side, there is a lot of water and little earth. RV Sonne crossed the SPG from Chile to New Zealand. The picture also shows chlorophyll concentrations derived from NASA imagery. Dark areas show the gyre middle or 'desert'.

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modified from Google Earth / NASA

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