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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Great Barrier Reef

“The Sea in many places is here cover’d with a kind of a brown scum,” observed Captain Cook of the Coral Sea near Australia. Aqua MODIS made the same observation on August 9, 2011.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Phytoplankton Bloom in the Great Barrier Reef.

NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Land Atmosphere Near-real time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 20, 2011
Data acquired August 9, 2011

Source:: Aqua > MODIS