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Can bioluminescent ‘milky seas’ be predicted?


For the first time, a scientist has used ocean and atmospheric data to find a milky sea, a huge expanse of luminous water, in past satellite images.

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Earth's "Milky Seas" (a luminescent nautical phenomenon) have been found in satellite data, and subsequently corroborated by sailors, for the first time. For centuries, sailors have told tales of nights when their ships would come across tens to hundreds of miles of seas that glow the color of milk.