Summer Phytoplankton Bloom near New Zealand

This image was taken on February 10 of this year by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and shows a large phytoplankton bloom along the shores of New Zealand’s South Island.

Source: NASA Earth Observatory’s Image of the Day

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