South Africa Phytoplankton

  • Credit

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

SeaWiFS captured this view of a long straight phytoplankton bloom extending from the southern tip of Africa. A few smoke plumes are barely visible just to the east of Cape Town.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    1999-03-28