Sentinel-2A Captures Bloom in Barents Sea
Description
Although it may appear as a watercolour painting, this image is a natural-colour capture of a plankton bloom in the Barents Sea by the Sentinel-2A satellite on 30 June 2016.
Copyright Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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