Turquoise Waters in the Bristol Channel – June 4, 2022
Summer algae blooms are in full force, with this particularly technicolor bloom popping up in the Bristol Channel off the southern coast of Wales. NASA says that this particular bloom could be a swarm of coccolithophores, which are phytoplankton with a microscopic plating of calcite. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite took this image on June 3 and it was shared as Image of the Day on June 4.
