Patagonia phytoplankton bloom (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Patagonia phytoplankton bloom

Caption

Satellite image of a large phytoplankton bloom in 2010 off Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America, of the kind that could be triggered by ocean iron fertilization to help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Credit

NASA Earth Observatory

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License

Public Domain

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