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Antarctica turned green: photo satellite

Added	Fri, 10/03/2017
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Fri, 10/03/2017
Версии	Microbes, single-celled algae, phytoplankton, etc.

Green ice, discovered off the coast of Antarctica is an absolutely natural origin. March 5, 2017, the satellite "Landsat-8" took these photos of water, sea-ice and phytoplankton. Region in the photo — the Granite harbour in Antarctica, the Bay near the Ross sea.

Jan Lieser, a marine glaciologist from Australia, believes that the green color is due to the presence of phytoplankton on the water surface. These microscopic marine plants, which are also called micro-algae usually bloom in the waters around Antarctica during the Australian spring and summer, when the edge of the sea ice recedes and enough sunlight. But scientists noticed that under the right conditions, phytoplankton can grow in the fall.

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