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Oxygen Factories in the Southern Ocean

The tiniest of living organisms exert an outsized influence on the planet by producing vast amounts of oxygen.


NASA image by Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Color web. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with assistance from Norman Kuring.

Published February 7, 2016
Data acquired January 13, 2016

Source:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS