SeaWiFS: Tasman Sea Bloom

  • Credit

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

It's about midway through spring in the southern hemisphere. Yesterday, the Orbview-2 satellite transmitted this SeaWiFS image of a multihued phytoplankton bloom off the northwest coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    2000-11-06