Landsat 8

Landsat 8 image of a swirling phytoplankton bloom in the Bay of Finland. The tiny dots around it are ships.
A swirl of algae is gigantic and beautiful... but is a harbinger of something darker
Phil Plait
Aug 10, 2018
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A teal blob attacks the North Sea
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May 25, 2018
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Phytoplankton blooms in the North Sea, seen by the Landsat-8 satellite in May 2018. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens / USGS / LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response
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The islands of yesterday and tomorrow
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Feb 7, 2018
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Landsat 8 image of the Diomedes islands from space. On the right is Alaska, and the left Russia. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
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