Feeding the Sea: Phytoplankton Fuel Ocean Life

Phytoplankton fuel ocean life by feeding other plankton, fish, and ultimately bigger creatures. This video explores the diversity of phytoplankton in the oceans and shows why these plant-like organisms play such a crucial role in life on Earth. In some of the images, color-filtering techniques were used to draw out the fine details in the water, but the features are real.

Producer: Kathryn Hansen

Music: "Ocean Waves" by Lotus_Sound

Images: NASA images by Norman Kuring/NASA's Ocean Color Web, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Images also by Joshua Stevens, Lauren Dauphin, Jesse Allen, and Jeff Schmaltz using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.

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