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Reef in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Arrecife Alacranes, Spanish for "Scorpion Reef," is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Reef in the Southern Gulf of Mexico.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 31, 2015
Data acquired November 5, 2014