A swirling oasis of life

A serpentine eddy swirls in the southern Indian Ocean several hundred kilometers off the coast of South Africa in this natural-color image, acquired by NASA’s Terra satellite on December 26, 2011....

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Source: PhysOrg - Tuesday, 14 February

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