SERIES Iron Enrichment Experiment (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

SERIES Iron Enrichment Experiment

Caption

Satellite data on chlorophyll concentrations in the northeastern Pacific Ocean uses warm colors to show areas of higher phytoplankton abundance. The small patch of bright red and yellow in the bottom center of the image indicates a bloom created by an iron fertilization experiment.

Credit

NASA Earth Observatory

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License

Public Domain

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