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Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.


NASA MODIS image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Astronaut photographs ISS040-E-12807 and ISS040-E-12808 were acquired on September 5, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera, and are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 40 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 19, 2014
Data acquired September 4, 2014

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
ISS > Digital Camera
Collections:
Astronaut Photography
MODIS Rapid Response