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Using two research vessels, the Export Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing (EXPORTS) oceanographic campaign will study the fates and carbon cycle impacts of microscopic underwater organisms.The large multidisciplinary team, including members from more than 20 different research institutions, is accompanied by advanced underwater robotics and other instruments on a month-long campaign to study the secret lives of tiny organisms called phytoplankton, and the animals that eat them. These organisms can have a large impact on Earth's carbon cycle, storing carbon dioxide in a part of the ocean known as the twilight zone, between 650 and 3300 feet below the surface. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 12564, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12564/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-04-03T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "Blue Marble Next Generation", "description": "Blue Marble: Next Generation is a years worth of monthly composites at a spatial resolution of 500 meters. These monthly images, from january through December, reveal seasonal changes to the land surface: the green-up and dying-back of vegetation in temperate regions such as North America and Europe, dry and wet seasons in the tropics, and advancing and retreating Northern Hemisphere snow cover. || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_large.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [112.1 KB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_large.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.3 KB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_large.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [5.9 MB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD.webm (960x540) [2.6 MB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [40.4 MB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_large.mp4 (3840x2160) [12.6 MB] || 5400x2700_2x1_60p (5400x2700) [4.0 KB] || GSFC_20170403_Blue_m12564_Marble.en_US.vtt [64 bytes] || 12564_Blue_Marble_prores_1280.mov (1280x720) [184.0 MB] || 12564_Blue_Marble_UHD_prores.mov (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 183 }, { "id": 30791, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30791/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-07-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Algae in Lake Okeechobee", "description": "A Landsat image show green streaks of algae in Lake Okeechobee. || okeechobee_algae_20160702_print.jpg (1024x574) [248.0 KB] || okeechobee_algae_20160702.png (4104x2304) [14.9 MB] || okeechobee_algae_20160702_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.0 KB] || okeechobee_algae_20160702_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || okeechobee_algae_20160702.hwshow [218 bytes] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 30288, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30288/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ocean Color in the Gulf of Alaska", "description": "The winter-white Alaska shoreline provides a vivid contrast to the turquoise swirls in the waters of the Gulf of Alaska. This burst of color in an otherwise black-and-white scene is caused by sediment, ground into fine powder by mountain glaciers and carried into the Gulf of Alaska through many waterways. The largest contributor of sediment shown in this image is the Copper River, immediately east of Prince William Sound. The ocean water near the mouth of the river is tan. As the clouds of sediment disperse in the water, they turn blue-green. Sediment is not the only thing that gives water this color in satellite images: a dense bloom of tiny ocean plants can also lend the water a blue-green tint. Called phytoplankton, these microscopic, surface-dwelling plants thrive in cool, nutrient-laden water such as the Gulf of Alaska. Dense concentrations of the plants can color large swaths of ocean water, and it may be that phytoplankton are also contributing to the color seen here. || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 30290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30290/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ocean Color off Iceland's Coast", "description": "During the darkness of winter, when the growth of plant-like marine life slows, nutrients accumulate in the surface waters of cold high latitude oceans. When light returns in the spring and summer, plant-like organisms—phytoplankton—proliferate in the surface waters. Spring and early summer phytoplankton blooms can cover a broad swath of the ocean, providing an abundance of food to marine life. One of the larger regularly observed summer blooms occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean near Iceland and Greenland. This image of a bloom on July 10, 2008 shows phytoplankton coloring the water with swirls in shades ranging from deep green to bright turquoise. The bloom hugs the western shore of Iceland. The land is largely snow-free except for mountain tops like the snow-covered peak of Snæfellsjökull, the volcano where Jules Verne’s travelers began their descent into the bowels of the Earth in his classic novel Journey to the Center of the Earth. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 30291, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30291/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Bright Waters off Namibia's Coast", "description": "Ocean waters glowed peacock green off the northern Namibian coast on November 21, 2010. These bright swirls of green occur along a continental shelf bustling with biological activity. Phytoplankton blooms often occur along coastlines where nutrient-rich waters well up from ocean depths. The light color of this ocean water suggests the calcite plating of coccolithophores.Farther south along the coast of Namibia, hydrogen sulfide eruptions occur fairly frequently. According to a study published in 2009, ocean currents deliver oxygen-poor water from the north, while the bacteria that break down phytoplankton also consume oxygen, depleting the supply even more. In this oxygen-poor environment, anaerobic bacteria produce hydrogen sulfide gas. When the hydrogen sulfide reaches oxygen-rich surface waters, sulfur precipitates into the water. The sulfur’s yellow mixes with the deep blue ocean to make bright green. So this swirl of bright green could contain phytoplankton, sulfur, or a combination of the two. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 30293, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30293/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Bloom in the Ross Sea", "description": "Every southern spring and summer the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species. This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water. The Ross Sea is a relatively shallow bay in the Antarctic coastline and due south from New Zealand. As the spring weather thaws the sea ice around Antarctica, areas of open water surrounded by ice—polynyas—open up on the continental shelf. In this open water, sunlight provides the fuel and various current systems provide nutrients from deeper waters to form blooms that can stretch 100 to 200 kilometers (60 to 120 miles). These blooms are among the largest in extent and abundance in the world. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 30294, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30294/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Plankton Bloom South of Africa", "description": "This natural-color image of a deep-ocean eddy was acquired on December 26, 2011. The light blue swirls, caused by plankton, reveal the vortex structure of the eddy. The image is rotated 90 degrees (north is to the left) to show the 150-kilometer wide bloom and eddy in context, about 800 kilometers south of South Africa. This anti-cyclonic (counter-clockwise) eddy likely peeled off from the Agulhas Current, which flows along the southeastern coast of Africa and around the tip of South Africa. Agulhas eddies, or “current rings,” tend to be among the largest in the world, transporting warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic. Certain types of eddies can promote blooms of phytoplankton. As these water masses stir the ocean, they draw nutrients up from the deep, fertilizing the surface waters to create blooms of microscopic, plant-like organisms in the open ocean, which is relatively barren compared to coastal waters. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 10907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-07T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Discovers Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Under Arctic Sea Ice", "description": "Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.The discovery is the result of an oceanographic expedition called ICESCAPE, or Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. The NASA-sponsored mission explored the seas along Alaska's western and northern coasts onboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The finding reveals a new consequence of the Arctic's warming climate and provides an important clue to understanding the impacts of a changing climate and environment on the Arctic Ocean and its ecology. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 10497, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10497/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Ocean's Green Machines", "description": "One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. These microscopic photosynthetic drifters form the basis of the marine food web, they regulate carbon in the atmosphere, and are responsible for half of the photosynthesis that takes place on this planet. Earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and as our home planet warms, so does the ocean. Warming waters have big consequences for phytoplankton and for the planet. 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This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. || ", "hits": 277 }, { "id": 3640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3640/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Cloudy Galileo Transitions to Blue Marble View", "description": "The MODIS instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites take multi-spectral images of the Earth daily. This realistic, cloudy Earth is a composite of MODIS imagery from March 3, 2009. This animation reveals a transition from the MODIS view of Earth to the Blue Marble image, to allow a look at the planet without clouds. The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 3641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3641/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Phytoplankton 10-year Global Average", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation displays the 10-year global average of nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 3642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3642/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Regions Exhibiting Decreased Phytoplankton Levels and Increased Sea Surface Temperatures", "description": "Throughout most of Earth's ocean, as the surface layer of the ocean warms, the water becomes less dense and forms a cap, rather than mixing down to allow cooler, nutrient-rich water to well up. Over time, areas with less mixing show reduced productivity and less phytoplankton. This data visualization highlights regions where a strong correlation between high sea surface temperatures and decreased phytoplankton productivity occurred from 1997-2006. For nearly a decade, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been making global observations of phytoplankton productivity. On December 6, 2006, NASA-funded scientists announced that warming sea surface temperatures over the past decade have caused a global decline in phytoplankton productivity. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 20028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20028/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2004-06-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cold Water Upwelling Promotes Phytoplankton Blooms", "description": "Carbon is the root of all life on Earth, and as it circulates through our biosphere, the Earth's state of health responds. Whenever the size of phytoplankton colonies in the ocean changes, it affects the amount of carbon absorbed from the atmosphere. These blooms are highly dependent on surrounding environmental conditions. As a hurricane passes over the tropical waters of the Atlantic, it draws up cold water from deep below the warmer surface. As the cooler water rises, it brings with it phytoplankton and nutrients necessary for life. These microscopic plants then bloom in higher than average amounts. Bigger storms cause larger plankton blooms and more plankton absorb a greater amount of carbon from our atmosphere. Scientists are still trying to determine how much carbon dioxide might be removed by such a process. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 20019, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20019/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2003-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Cold Water Upwelling", "description": "Deep Water Feast: Upwellings Bring Nutrients to The Surface- Large phytoplankton blooms tend to coincide with natural phenomena that drive cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface. The process is called upwelling. Here's what's happening: winds coming off principal land masses push surface layers of water away from the shore. Into the resulting wind-driven void deeper water underneath the surface layers rushes in toward the coast, bringing with it nutrients for life to bloom. It's different on the equator. There, water currents on either side of the hemispheric dividing line are generally moving in opposite directions — due to planetary rotation and the Coriolis effect. As those currents rush past each other they 'peel back' the surface of the ocean, creating a void for deeper water to rush into and take its place. || ", "hits": 234 } ] }