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Sea of Pollen Visible From Space

Researchers used satellites to distinguish blankets of pine pollen from other floating materials on the Baltic Sea.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023) processed by the European Space Agency. Photograph courtesy of Magdalena Pawlik and Dariusz Ficek. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published May 1, 2023
Data acquired May 16, 2018

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