Ocean Color Image Gallery
Blooms around Kamchatka |
  The volcanically active Kamchatka Peninsula separates two biologically active bodies of water this time of year. Green (and in some places slightly reddish) swirls of phytoplankton fill the surface waters of the northwest Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea in the above MODIS image collected on May 23, 2013. (Click on the above image for higher resolution.) |
