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Effects of light penetrating the ocean

Phytoplankton absorb red and blue light but reflect green, which satellites can detect—revealing life and particles in sunlit ocean surface waters.

Effects of light penetrating the ocean. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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