Articles for tag: EnvironmentalScience, GlowingOcean, MarineScience, OceanPhenomena

a view of the ocean from an airplane

The Night the Ocean Glowed Bright Enough to Read – Seen From Space!

Suhail Ahmed

  On a moonless night in the Indian Ocean, the sea turned the color of old paper – uniform, ghostly, and bright enough that mariners said they could make out the print on a page. For centuries, such “milky seas” were sailor’s lore, hard to prove and easy to doubt. Then satellites caught the glow ...