Phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Portugal

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On April 23, 2002, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this image of a large, colorful phytoplankton bloom occurring in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal (left). Several fires (red dots) were detected by MODIS as well.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-04-23