Image: The turbulent North Atlantic
![Credit: NASA/Ocean Biology Processing Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image: The turbulent North Atlantic](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2016/imagetheturb.jpg)
The Gulf Stream waters flow in somewhat parallel layers, slicing across what is otherwise a fairly turbulent western North Atlantic Ocean in this March 9, 2016 image collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite.
The turbulence—made visible by the pigmented phytoplankton it entrains—extends across the whole North American Basin from Anegada to Bermuda to Cape Cod.
Provided by NASA