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Alien invasion

Wednesday 09th August, 2006 - 13:39 | Category: Musings | Posted by: James

Scouring the web the other day, I came across a satellite image that looked remarkably as if some sort of wierd alien invasion was taking place off the coast of Devon and Cornwall (500K):

bloom.jpg

Source: MODIS Rapid Response System

On further reading, it turns out this is known as algal bloom, caused by a “relatively rapid increase in the population of (usually) phytoplankton algae” (whatever that is). For more information, see Wikipedia.

I know you are all fast asleep by now through sheer boredom, however, the image is nice!

2 Comments so far

  1. Chris and Sam | Wednesday 9th August, 2006 - 20:55

    Hi James, Sam is here looking at the algal bloom pics with me. Stunning stuff!!! It must be all the sunshine on the sea so Sam says. hi james sam here.

  2. James | Thursday 10th August, 2006 - 10:48

    Hi Sam,

    Glad you liked the pictures.. yes, I think it must be something to do with all the sunshine!

    James

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