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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Patagonia Modis

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Blooms of a tiny algae called coccolithophores near the Falkland Islands are visible from space as bright turquoise swirls. New research shows that coccolithophores are mysteriously scarce in one of the most fertile and productive regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Group/NASA Goddard Space Flight Research Center

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