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Jason and the Bloomonauts

Dynamic mixing and churning of currents around some South Atlantic islands makes for biologically productive waters.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Michael Carlowicz. Congratulations to Evzen Schulc, who correctly identified the image as a phytoplankton bloom.

Published November 8, 2020
Data acquired October 18, 2020

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI