Here’s Planet Earth By Van Gogh-or Viceversa [Image Capture]

” Van Gogh from space.” That’s how Rebecca Roth at NASA Goddard describes this stunning image, which seems like Starry Night. But these usually are not stars. It’s the following, on planet Earth. So beautiful that it defies belief.

In the manner of Van Gogh’s painting ” Starry Night,” massive congregations of greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dead of night water around Gotland, a Swedish island inside the Baltic Sea. Phytoplankton are microscopic marine plants that form the first link in nearly all ocean food chains. Population explosions, or blooms, of phytoplankton, like the single shown here, occur when deep currents bring nutrients up to sunlit surface waters, fueling the growth and reproduction of these tiny plants.

I’m sure that Van Gogh would have cut his other ear if he saw this while floating in orbit. [ NASA ]

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