120-mile stretch of Algae can be seen from Space

A bright green bloom of algae 120 miles long and 60 miles wide is so big it can be seen from space.The 'remarkable' bloom has been caught on a satellite camera based 400 miles above Earth. It is thought to have occurred when snow was blown into the ocean from Antarctica.

The mammoth growth was probably caused by a build-up of iron which came from the snow falling into the waters, according to