SeaWiFS: Northwest African Dust and Bloom

  • Credit

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

This SeaWiFS image captured on October 18, 2001 offers a view of dust blowing out of northwest Africa. In the lower left corner of the image, the green water of a large phytoplankton bloom off the Mauritanian coast is visible through the dusty air.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-10-18