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May, 2025

Swirling seas

© US Geological Survey/Norman Kuring/Kathryn Hansen/NASA

From electron microscopes to high-definition satellite photography, technology has opened our eyes to once-impossible perspectives on nature. So, is what we're seeing really big or really tiny?A bit of both, actually: In this aerial image snapped by Landsat 8 of the colossal Chukchi Sea off northern Alaska, the watery whorls show the mingling of two different water sources: the Alaskan coast and the larger Bering Sea. The photo's forest-green blotches are full of microscopic diatoms fueled by frigid yet food-rich Bering currents. The intercutting wisps of icy turquoise are the calcified carapaces of coccolithophores—plankton that can thrive in warmer, nutrient-poor coastal waters.
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