SeaWiFS: Bloom in the Barents Sea

  • Credit

    Credit line for all images: Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

The clouds opened up enough on July 24, 2001, over the Barents Sea to reveal part of a suspected coccolithophore bloom to SeaWiFS. The personnel attempting to raise the sunken Russian submarine, the Kursk, probably have a good view of the milky water.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    2001-07-24