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NASA Spots an "Eye" of Smoke and Phytoplankton near Cape Barren Island
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NASA Spots an "Eye" of Smoke and Phytoplankton near Cape Barren Island

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Australia's Cape Barren Island and captured an image of phytoplankton and smoke from fires that resembled an eye and eyebrow. The Tasmanian Fire Service reported that a vegetation fire near Thunder and Lightning Bay, Cape Barren Island started on December 4 and was still blazing on December 8. Cape Barren Island is one of a trail of islands in the Bass Strait of the South Pacific Ocean, between southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

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Credit lineNASA Spots an "Eye" of Smoke and Phytoplankton near Cape Barren Island. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000152.
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