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Baltic Cyanobacteria

Clouds and contrails throw shadows onto the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Gotland, Sweden as ships cut dark slices through the cyanobacterial slicks that cover the water. This view was collected on August 3, 2018 by the Landsat 8 / OLI sensor. Click the above image for a higher resolution view.