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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA images courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE.
Scientists report the largest bloom of toxic algae ever observed has formed off Washington's coast. These SeaWiFS images show the region affected.
- Large Images: <LI>Natural Color (5.55 Mb) <LI>Chlorophyll Concentrations (6.34 Mb)
On October 1, 2004, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor aboard the OrbView-2 satellite detected high concentrations of chlorophyll in the Pacific Ocean. Not all of the chlorophyll seen in the right image is from the toxic bloom. It is likely that other forms of phytoplankton also color the water, and from this image alone, it is impossible to tell which are toxic algae and which are other plants. On September 29, the toxic bloom was reported to be about 24 kilometers (15 miles) off the northwest coast of Washington.
Metadata
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Sensor
OrbView-2/SeaWiFS -
Start Date
2004-10-01 -
Event Start Date
2004-09-24 -
NH Image ID
12481 -
NH Event ID
10496 -
NH Posting Date
2004-10-04