The Earth’s oceans may appear blue, but along the continental shelves, they appear a lighter shade of blue than in the deepest parts of the ocean. This is not an artifact of the way the image was constructed, but a real phenomenon that details the difference between what’s absorbed and reflected by the ocean itself at various depths. (Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring)
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