Phytoplankton Blooms in the Barents Sea (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

Phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway and Russia, shown in natural color from NASA's Aqua satellite on July 10, 2014. Without sampling the water directly it's impossible to know the type of phytoplankton, but past analyses suggest that the green bloom is diatoms and the white bloom is coccolithophores.

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Credits: NASA's Earth Observatory

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