Data acquired October 9, 2011
720 x 480
JPEG

Data acquired October 9, 2011
3600 x 2800
3 MB - JPEG

Data acquired October 9, 2011
18 MB - GeoTIFF

Data acquired October 9, 2011
JPEG

Sediment and Algae Color the Great Lakes

A massive algal bloom and storm-churned sediment color the Great Lakes in this image from October 9, 2011.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Sediment and Algae Color the Great Lakes.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published October 13, 2011
Data acquired October 9, 2011