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NASA image acquired August 9, 2010 Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that live in watery environments. When...
Differently colored waters in the Sea of Okhotsk on June 12, 2013 suggest differences in phytoplankton community...
A massive phytoplankton bloom stained the waters of the Atlantic Ocean north of Iceland with brilliant jewel tones...
On July 23, 2013 the deep blue waters of the central North Atlantic Ocean provided a background for a spectacular...
Springtime in the Bay of Biscay, off the coast of France, as in most places, is a season of abundant growth. On...
NASA image captured 06/24/2010 at 14 :30 UTC Phytoplankton bloom off western Iceland Satellite: Aqua NASA/GSFC/Jeff...
NASA image acquired December 26, 2011 Off the coast of South Africa, near where the South Atlantic meets the...
NASA image acquired August 31, 2010 To see a detail of this image go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4971318856/ In...
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Australia's Cape Barren Island and captured an image of phytoplankton...
NASA image acquired August 31, 2010 To see the full view of this image go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4970549945...
Phytoplankton growth in the Bay of Biscay intensified in early May, 2013, painting the deep blue waters with huge...
The remnants of sea ice along the Northwestern Passage in northern Canada are seen swirling with the blue green of...
Phytoplankton bloom in the Great Australian Bight captured by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite on December...
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...
STS032-520-014 (9-20 Jan. 1990) --- STS-32 astronauts took this 70mm scene showing phytoplankton oralgal bloom in...
This image taken from the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument of New Zealand was collected on January 9, 2015...
A project jointly funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation is heading west from Seattle, straight for the...
Blue Marble: Next Generation is a years worth of monthly composites at a spatial resolution of 500 meters. These...
This February 8, 2016 composite image reveals the complex distribution of phytoplankton in one of Earth's eastern...
Large blooms of phytoplankton (likely coccolithophores) surrounded the 51-kilometer-long St. Matthew Island in the...
Increasing solar illumination brings increased phytoplankton growth to the Gulf of Alaska every spring, and this...
Increasing solar illumination brings increased phytoplankton growth to the Gulf of Alaska every spring, and this...
In the Arabian Sea, sunlight and nutrients has fueled a startling occurrence of colorful phytoplankton and bacterial...