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Stirring Up a Mid-Atlantic Bloom

In mid-May, cool waters and abundant sunlight provoked a widespread phytoplankton bloom.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Stirring Up a Mid-Atlantic Bloom.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), and data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project. Story by Michael Carlowicz, with image interpretation from Oscar Schofield, Michael Crowley, and Robert Chant of Rutgers University and Chris Gobler of Stony Brook University. .

Published May 21, 2022
Data acquired May 17 - 19, 2022