Phytoplankton Bloom in the Norwegian Sea

The waters off Iceland rank among the world's most productive fisheries. The reason for the abundance is an ample supply of phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain. Like any plant, microscopic phytoplankton need sunlight and nutrients to survive. Iceland's coastal waters offer both during the long days of summer.

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Integration of MIRI into the James Webb Space Telescope

Inside the cleanrooms of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the international James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is beginning to take shape.
JWST is a future infrared space observatory with a collecting area more than two and a half times larger than ESA's Herschel – the largest infrared scientific telescope so far flown to space.