English: NASA satellite view of Southern Ocean phytoplankton bloom
On January 13, "2016," the——Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this view of extensive phytoplankton blooms stretching from the tip of South America across——to the "Antarctic Peninsula." The image was built with data from the red, "green," and blue wavelength bands on VIIRS, plus chlorophyll data. A series of image-processing steps highlighted the color differences. And more subtle features, such as nearly a dozen eddies of varying sizes.