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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
Many images are made of relatively bright phytoplankton blooms. However, not all such blooms reflect more light than they absorb. SeaWiFS collected this image of a patch in the north Pacific that had been darkened because the photosynthetic pigments of the phytoplankton living there had absorbed more of the incoming solar radiation than the relatively phytoplankton-poor surrounding waters.
The Hawaiian islands can be seen through the clouds about 1000 kilometers to the southwest of the patch.
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OrbView-2 - SeaWiFSData Date:
September 19, 2000Visualization Date:
September 19, 2000
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