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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea

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

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NASA image acquired August 31, 2010 To see a detail of this image go to: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4971318856/">www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4971318856/</a> In this natural-color image from August 31, 2010, the ocean’s canvas swirls with turquoise, teal, navy, and green, the abstract art of the natural world. The colors were painted by a massive phytoplankton bloom made up of millions of tiny, light-reflecting organisms growing in the sunlit surface waters of the Barents Sea.

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Credit linePhytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001985.

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