https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/RSS/?TagShow=places|antarctica| en hourly 1 https://www.wallpaperfusion.com https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/icebergs/23785/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:09:11 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/icebergs/23785/ Icebergs in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.]]> Icebergs in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/seal-under-ice/3365/ Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:39:18 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/seal-under-ice/3365/ A Weddell Seal in McMurdo Sound.]]> A Weddell Seal in McMurdo Sound.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/bloom-in-the-ross-sea/153/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/bloom-in-the-ross-sea/153/ Every southern spring and summer, after the Sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species who carve out a living in the cool waters of the far south.
This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011, as viewed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.]]> Every southern spring and summer, after the Sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species who carve out a living in the cool waters of the far south.
This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011, as viewed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/mackenzie-bay-antarctica/154/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/mackenzie-bay-antarctica/154/ Off the northeastern edge of Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf lies Mackenzie Bay, which was painted with a ghostly blue-green mass in early February 2012. Similarly colored tendrils also streamed northward across the ocean, their flow sometimes interrupted by icebergs.]]> Off the northeastern edge of Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf lies Mackenzie Bay, which was painted with a ghostly blue-green mass in early February 2012. Similarly colored tendrils also streamed northward across the ocean, their flow sometimes interrupted by icebergs.]]>