Noctiluca in the News

Green algae swirls on the beach of Bandar al-Jissah in Oman. The Gulf of Oman turns green twice a year, when an algae bloom the size of Mexico spreads across the Arabian Sea all the way to India.

View the work of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite

A tiny organism and its tenants make an unexpected appearance.