A natural-color image from August 31, 2010, acquired by the The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. Colors of turquoise, teal, navy, and green, of a massive phytoplankton bloom made up of millions of tiny, light-reflecting organisms growing in the sunlit surface waters of the Barents Sea. Such blooms peak every August in the Barents Sea.