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Bloom in the Ross Sea
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NASA image acquired January 22, 2011 To see a detail of this image go to: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5398237910">www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5398237910</a> Every southern spring and summer, after the Sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms.
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Credit lineBloom in the Ross Sea. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001951.
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