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Alaskan Phytoplankton
Alaskan Phytoplankton

Spring phytoplankton communities paint eddies inthe Gulf of Alaska on May the 4th, 2015 while aerosols hint at the motions of the overlying atmosphere. The above view was collected by the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi-NPP spacecraft.