SeaWiFS: Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of California

  • Credit

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

This SeaWiFS image from October 6, 2001 shows a phytoplankton bloom in progress around the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. At the bottom center of the full-resolution image, a vortex street is visible in the clouds to the southwest of Socorro Island.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-10-06