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The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasionally parts as it did on January 1, 2015 just west of the Drake...
The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasionally parts as it did on January 1, 2015 just west of the Drake...
This morphing animation compares the eddies in Earth's oceans to the turbulent clouds in Jupiter's atmosphere. In...
SL4-137-3608 (14 Dec. 1973) --- A view of cold water eddies in the Falkland Current off the South Atlantic coast of...
High-resolution ocean surface wind data from NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) illustrate the strength of Santa...
The left image shows a close-up of a phytoplankton blooming in the southern Gulf of Bothnia, in the Baltic Sea,...
NASA's Landsat 8 satellite collected this view of phytoplankton blooming in the southern Gulf of Bothnia, in the...
Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American physicist, was the first to describe the physical processes that create...