File:Phytoplankton Bloom off Greenland.jpg
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English: Photo-like image of a phytoplankton bloom off eastern Greenland. The bloom blends shades of milky blue, turquoise, and green, created by different species of phytoplankton growing in the cold, nutrient-rich waters. Likely shaped by the East Greenland Current, the bloom extends along the south-east coast of Greenland.
The phytoplankton bloom is not the only source of colour in the scene. The brilliant white of the ice sheet fades to gray in places along the shore where old ice is exposed. Tinted faintly brown like the craggy brown rocks that channel them, glaciers seep from the ice sheet into fjords, rivers of ice draining the great ice sheet. The glaciers give way to green-blue water, milky with the fine sediment created as the ice grinds over rock. These waters and the deep black-blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean are dotted with icebergs. No more than tiny white specks at this scale, the icebergs resemble tiny grains of salt floating on the water’s surface. |
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Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
Author | Jeff Schmaltz |
Image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Image courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
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