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Orbital Biosignature Assay: Phytoplankton Bloom Off The U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: As we begin to study worlds in our own solar system that might have life we use our home world as a testbed for the various ways to […]

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Orbital Biosignature Survey: A Bright Blue Coccolithophore Bloom In The Barents Sea

by Keith Cowing

When summer arrives at high northern latitudes, peripheral seas to the Arctic Ocean lose some of their ice cover and bask in long daylight hours. That’s when phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms […]

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