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Stirring Up a Bloom off Patagonia

The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive phytoplankton bloom off of the Atlantic coast of Patagonia on December 21, 2010.


NASA image created by Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Web. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published January 1, 2011
Data acquired December 21, 2010

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Aqua > MODIS