Beauty in the Barents

There are a few possible reasons why the phytoplankton-rich waters of this high-latitude sea appear both green and turquoise blue.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Andrew Orkney and Heather Bouman/University of Oxford.

Published July 23, 2021
Data acquired July 15, 2021

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Aqua > MODIS