The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth and is very important for life since marine species live there. This large body of water is made up of the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern or Antarctic Ocean. Precisely, the POT Through the mission called Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds and Ocean Ecosystems (PACE), it revealed the diversity of colors that this large mass of water has.
WHAT IS THE REAL COLOR OF THE OCEANS?
A few months ago, NASA launched the PACE probe with the aim of further investigating the particularities of the oceans on Earth. In this way, through their social networks some photographs were published that were taken in front of the ocean off the coast of South Africa using an Ocean Color instrument (OCI), which detected the following:
“Light in a hyperspectral range to differentiate phytoplankton communities. PACE data will allow researchers to study microscopic life in the ocean and particles in the air, advancing our understanding of issues such as fishery health, harmful algal blooms, air pollution and smoke. of forest fires”.
Likewise, NASA posted other images provided by the satellite of the Earth’s oceans and seas, their true and precise colors, and the phytoplankton areas they house in places such as Japan, New Zealand, the Gulf of Thailand, the ice of the Arctic Ocean using “true color” technology delivered by the probe’s OCI instrument, and with infrared to validate diversity.
WHICH COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA IS CLOSE TO THE ATLANTIC, PACIFIC AND ANTARCTIC OCEANS?
According to Sarah Romero’s article for the platform Veryinteresting.com, the only South American country that has proximity to the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans is Chile. Although it is not surrounded by these three celestial bodies, it has a privileged geographical position that allows it to be close to them.
Chile has sovereignty over areas that extend beyond South America, for example, such as Easter Island in Oceania and a part of the Antarctic continent called the Chilean Antarctic Territory. Below are the characteristics of these three oceans:
- Atlantic: It extends over 76,762,000 km² and is the second largest ocean.
- Peaceful: It covers a third of the Earth’s surface and is the deepest, at 10,924 meters deep.
- Antarctic: The ocean has a surface area of 20.33 million km².
