Mat of phytoplankton

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Phytoplankton bloom formed of a dense mat of diatoms in the Southern Ocean. This was sampled by team of scientists on voyage between the UK and South Georgia to validate ocean data from the Copernicus Sentinels.

CREDIT
University of Hawaii–E. Goetze/Naturalis Biodiversity Centre Leiden–K. Peijnenburg, D. Wall-Palmer & L. Mekkes
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