Florida's Disgusting Algae Bloom Is Now Visible From Space

An enormous algae bloom that turned Florida’s Treasure Coast a gnarly shade of green last week, and now we know just what that goopy nightmare looks like from space. On July 2nd, NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite snapped some weirdly impressionistic images of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, in which you can see billions of green microbes spawning like mad.

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Source: Gizmodo – Florida’s Disgusting Algae Bloom Is Now Visible From Space