Images & Animations
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Credit
Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
The beginning of spring in central Chile looked like this to SeaWiFS. The snow-covered Andes mark the country's eastern border, and phytoplankton blooms and river sediment plumes fill the waters off its west coast. A large eddy due west of Concepcion is highlighted by the phytoplankton it contains.
Metadata
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Sensor
OrbView-2/SeaWiFS -
Visualization Date
2000-09-26
