{"id":9514,"date":"2014-12-11T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=305"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:12:18","slug":"today-in-space-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9514","title":{"rendered":"Today in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/patagonianshelf_vir_2014336_lrg.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at least from a satellite view. The Patagonian Shelf Break is a biologically rich patch of ocean where airborne dust from the land, iron-rich currents from the south, and upwelling currents from the depths provide a bounty of nutrients for the grass of the sea\u2014phytoplankton. In turn, those floating sunlight harvesters become food for some of the richest fisheries in the world.<br \/>\nThe Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured this view of phytoplankton-rich waters off of Argentina on Dec. 2, 2014. Scientists in NASA\u2019s Ocean Color Group used three wavelengths (671, 551, and 443 nanometers) of visible and near-infrared light to highlight different plankton communities in the water. Bands of color not only reveal the location of plankton, but also the dynamic eddies and currents that carry them.<br \/>\n> More Information<br \/>\nImage Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA\u2019s Ocean Color Group, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership via NASA http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/colorful-and-plankton-full-patagonian-waters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at least from a satellite view. The Patagonian Shelf Break is a biologically rich patch of ocean where airborne dust from the land, iron-rich currents from the south, and upwelling currents from the depths provide a bounty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13,39],"class_list":["post-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}