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A Massive Seaweed Bloom in the Atlantic

A belt of seaweed that stretches from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is the largest on record for March.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data courtesy of Brian Barnes at the University of South Florida (USF), Optical Oceanography Lab and Wang, M., et al. (2019). Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published April 7, 2023
Data acquired March 2023

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Applied Sciences