
Credit:
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Beneath airplane contrails and clouds, MODIS captured this image of a phytoplankton bloom occurring off Brittany, France (image center) on May 15, 2002. The bloom appears to extend westward as well, and is very bright blue in places.
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Sensor:
Terra - MODISData Date:
May 15 - 15, 2002Visualization Date:
May 22, 2002

