Beguiling Bloom in The Baltic Sea

Nearly every summer, phytoplankton trace the sea’s currents, eddies, and flows.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Beguiling Bloom in The Baltic Sea.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation by Norman Kuring/NASA GSFC, Ajit Subramaniam/LDEO/Columbia University, and Maren Voss/Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende.

Published August 19, 2020
Data acquired August 15, 2020

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI