Antarctic sea ice is lean and green: image of the day

• Main Author: Lieser, JL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: NASA 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; St. Patricks; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115182

It may look like someone dyed the water green for St. Patricks Day, but the green hue visible off the coast ofAntarctica is entirely natural.On March 5, 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these natural-color images of water,sea ice, and phytoplankton. The region pictured i...