Ocean Color Image Gallery

Gulf of Oman Blooms

A dense bloom of phytoplankton — likely the dinoflagellate mixotroph, Noctiluca scintillans — is visible in this Landsat 8/OLI image collected on December 22, 2017.

Click on the above image to get a larger version that shows the bloom's position and size relative to Oman's al Dimaniyyat Islands in the lower left corner.