Summer Blooms in the Baltic and Barents0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 3, 2018
NASA’s Operational Land Imager aboard Landsat 8 recently captured an image of a gigantic swirling phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea’s Gulf of Finland.
NASA’s Operational Land Imager aboard Landsat 8 recently captured an image of a gigantic swirling phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea’s Gulf of Finland.
A tiny organism at the base of the food chain, but vital for life to exist on Earth, is under threat, according to data collected by a NASA satellite that has been firing a laser into the ocean for a decade.