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The North Sea

The North Sea
The North Sea

The above 9 May 2016 view of the North Sea shows some variation in water color that might be related to differences in the phytoplankton communities that live in that body of water. Measuring these differences is difficult enough from sea level, never mind from orbit. With future ocean color missions such as PACE, NASA hopes to make the task a bit more tractable.