Phytoplankton May Be Abundant Under Antarctic Sea Ice - related image preview

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Phytoplankton May Be Abundant Under Antarctic Sea Ice

New evidence shows that a sufficient amount of daylight penetrates the ice to sustain blooms of floating, plant-like organisms.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Horvat, C., et al. (2022). Photo by NASA/Nathan Kurtz. Story by Michael Carlowicz/NASA’s Earth Science Division.

Published November 29, 2022
Data acquired 2014 - 2020

Sources:
ICESat-2 > ATLAS
In situ Measurement
Photograph
Collection:
Applied Sciences