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Bloom in the Parent Stream

Fueled by the Oyashio current, the waters off of northeastern Japan support a bounty of phytoplankton and fishes.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published June 4, 2019
Data acquired May 26 - June 2, 2019

Source:
Aqua > MODIS