Visible Earth: Island Wakes and Sunglint in the Windward Islands

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

This SeaWiFS image shows perturbations in sunglint caused by the wake effects of the Windward Islands. From top to bottom the islands are Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados (at right), and Grenada.

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OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
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1998-07-18

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Island Wakes and Sunglint in the Windward Islands

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