SeaWiFS: Turbidity in Pamlico Sound

  • Credit

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

On Friday, December 21, 2001, SeaWiFS collected this image of teh eastern United States. The waters in Pamlico and Albemarle sounds in eastern North Carolina look a bit more turbid than usual, and capes Hatteras, Lookout, and Fear are all shedding significant sediment plumes.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    2001-12-21