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Sea Sawdust off Gladstone

The waters off of Australia hosted an apparent bloom of Trichodesmium, an ancient, important, and ubiquitous type of microscopic sea life.


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

Published October 7, 2017
Data acquired September 11, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI