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Blooming Norwegian Sea

Warming summer waters and ample sunlight make conditions right for phytoplankton to reproduce in abundance.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz and Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 5, 2017
Data acquired July 23, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI