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Blue shades indicate that this area had on average less than 3 square kilomenters of Sargassum, while red indicates that the region had an average of 9 square kilometers or more. || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650.01775_print.jpg (1024x576) [156.7 KB] || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650.01775_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.0 KB] || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650.01775_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650_30p_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.4 MB] || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650_30p_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [21.4 MB] || sargassum_v28_JulyMean_4k_2024-05-28_1650_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [18.9 MB] || composite [0 Item(s)] || composite [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 5299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5299/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly mean Sargassum in the Atlantic: Jan 2018 - Dec 2023", "description": "This visualization shows the monthly mean Sargassum observed in the Atlantic Ocean by the MODIS instruments on NASA's TERRA and AQUA satellites from January 2018 through December 2023. Each square box of color represents an area 0.5 x 0.5 degrees, roughly 3025 square kilometers in size. The color represents the mean amount of Sargassum observed in that box during the month of July. Blue shades indicate that this area had on average less than 3 square kilomenters of Sargassum, while red indicates that the region had an average of 9 square kilometers or more. || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632.02876_print.jpg (1024x576) [152.7 KB] || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632.02876_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.7 KB] || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632.02876_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632_p30_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [10.8 MB] || composite [0 Item(s)] || composite [0 Item(s)] || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632_p30_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [31.5 MB] || sargassum_v30_monthly_4k_2024-05-28_1632_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [31.8 MB] || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 14648, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14648/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "An Ocean in Bloom", "description": "Music: \"Maelstrom Dream,\" \"Skipping Stones On The Lake,\" \"Breaking Through The Clouds,\" \"Awaking Wonder,\" \"Floating Emotions,\" \"Fire in the Chill of Dawn,\" \"Closed Fractures,\" \"Battle For Our Future,\" \"Final Climb,\" \"In Nature,\" Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlFootage Courtesy Of: FOX 13 News, New World of Communications of Tampa, INC. TM and Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023. 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It’s a complicated data analysis process, but one that researchers are automating so resource managers around the country can use the satellite data to identify potential problems.Music: Light From Dark by Adam Salkedi, Neil Pollard [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music Ltd.; Experimental Design by Laurent Dury [SACEM], published by Koka Media; Against The Wall by Benjamin Peter McAvoy [PRS], published by Sound Pocket Music; Brainstorming by Laurent Dury[SACEM], published by Koka Media; Together As One by Le Fat Club [SACEM], Olivier Grim [SACEM]; published by Koka Media.Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster.png (1564x936) [2.7 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_print.jpg (1024x612) [237.1 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_searchweb.png (320x180) [130.5 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_thm.png (80x40) [10.8 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_prores.mov (1920x1080) [5.3 GB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [632.1 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_fb.mp4 (1920x1080) [473.0 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_tw-720.mp4 (1280x720) [161.2 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_yt.webm (1920x1080) [21.7 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance-captions.en_US.srt [9.4 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance-captions.en_US.vtt [9.0 KB] || ", "hits": 48 }, { "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": 188 }, { "id": 30669, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30669/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-30T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Modeled Phytoplankton Communities in the Global Ocean", "description": "Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web and are crucial players in the Earth's carbon cycle. They are also incredibly diverse. This visualization shows dominant phytoplankton types from 1994-1998 generated by the Darwin Project using a high-resolution ocean and ecosystem model. The model contains flow fields from 1994-1998 (generated by the ECCO2 model), inorganic nutrients, 78 species of phytoplankton, zooplankton, as well as particulate and dissolved organic matter. Colors represent the most dominant type of phytoplankton at a given location based on their size and ability to uptake nutrients. Red represents diatoms (big phytoplankton, which need silica), yellow represents flagellates (other big phytoplankton), green represents prochlorococcus (small phytoplankton that cannot use nitrate), and cyan represents synechococcus (other small phytoplankton). Opacity indicates concentration of the carbon biomass.A key part of the Darwin Project is developing theoretical and numerical models of the marine ecosystems. The data shown here are from a simulation of the Darwin model in a physical run of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model by the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) group. The model provides a laboratory to explore the controls on biodiversity and the biogeography of different phytoplankton species. In particular, the role of the swirls and filaments (mesoscale features) appear important in maintaining high biodiversity in the ocean. || ", "hits": 185 }, { "id": 3938, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3938/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-04-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data 2000 through 2004", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the Western seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 3639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3639/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Blue Marble", "description": "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": 331 }, { "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": 40 }, { "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": 26 }, { "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": 22 }, { "id": 3585, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3585/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Stereoscopic SeaWiFS Biosphere Global Rotation: 1997-2006", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. This time period repeats twice during the animation. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones.This visualization is a stereoscopic version of animation entry: #3420:SeaWiFS Biosphere Global Rotation from 1997 to 2006 || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 10394, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10394/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Scanning Electron Microscope Still Image of Pollen Particles", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles that come from a variety of sources. They occur in nature, but can also be generated by human activity. Pollen grains are an example of short-lived aerosols that are difficult to detect but are found near the Earth's surface. Pollen effect human health, but researchers do not consider these aerosols to be part of the climatologically important population of tropospheric aerosols. This Scanning Electron Microscopic image reveals pollen grains from a variety of common plants: sunflower (Helianthus annuus), morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea ), prairie hollyhock (Sidalcea malviflora), oriental lily (Lilium auratum ), evening primrose (Oenothera fruticosa), and castor bean (Ricinus communis). || ", "hits": 248 }, { "id": 3515, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3515/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over Northeastern United States", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the north eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3516, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3516/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over United States Eastern Seaboard", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. 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The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 3524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3524/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over Northeastern United States (Land Masked)", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the north eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 3526, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3526/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over United States Eastern Seaboard (Land Masked)", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 3527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3527/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Across the United States Western Seaboard (Land Masked)", "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 represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the Western seaboard of the United States. 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