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Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica

Ghostly blue-green in Antarctica’s Mackenzie Bay likely owes its existence to a complicated mix of cold temperatures and changing water pressure.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott with information from Helen A. Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Robert Massom, Australian Antarctic Division; Ben Galton-Fenzi, University of Tasmania, Australia; and Florence Fetterer, Walt Meier, and Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Published February 23, 2012
Data acquired February 12, 2012

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EO-1 > ALI