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White Sea - Russia

At bottom center of this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from April 13, 2001, the White Sea in western Russia is becoming free of ice in its southern extent. Meanwhile, the blue-green waters along the coast of the peninsula jutting out into the Barents Sea to the northeast could be due to a phytoplankton bloom.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published January 27, 2002
Data acquired April 23 - 23, 2001

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topics:
Biosphere > Microbiota > Phytoplankton
Biosphere > Vegetation > Biomass
Biosphere > Vegetation > Phytoplankton