# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/weQo5toaGR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11738016-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2014-12-11T16:16:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Colorful and Plankton-full Patagonian Waters: Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at least from a satellite view. The Patagonian Shelf Break is a biologically rich patch of ocean where airborne dust from the land, iron-rich currents from the south, and upwelling currents from the depths provide a bounty of nutrients for the grass of the sea—phytoplankton. In turn, those floating sunlight harvesters become food for some of the richest fisheries in the world.

Image Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Color Group, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership

#earth #earthrightnow #nasa #atlanticocean #patagonian #science

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