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Coloring the Sea Around the Pribilof Islands
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The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplankton bloom near Alaska’s Pribilof Islands on Sept. 22, 2014. The Pribilofs are surrounded by nutrient-rich waters in the Bering Sea. The milky green and light blue shading of the water indicates the presence of vast populations of microscopic phytoplankton—mostly coccolithophores, which have calcite scales that appear white in satellite images.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineColoring the Sea Around the Pribilof Islands. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000840.
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