Western South Africa

  • Credit

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

A good deal of chlorophyll is visible in the waters of the upwelling zone of the western South African coast in this SeaWiFS image. The sediment plume of the Orange River is also visible at the border with Namibia.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    2000-02-21