A Bloom of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

An important player in the nitrogen cycle, Trichodesmium makes a seasonal appearance off the northeast coast of Australia.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Bloom of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published September 16, 2019
Data acquired September 1, 2019