Large Gyre East of Japan

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

A very well-defined spiral eddy is visible through the haze off the east coast of Japan in this SeaWiFS image.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    1999-05-22