Vancouver Island’s Colorful Coastline - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Vancouver Island’s Colorful Coastline - related image preview

2353 x 1569
2 MB - JPEG

Vancouver Island’s Colorful Coastline

Swirls of phytoplankton and sediment brightened the island’s coastal waters in July 2023.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published August 1, 2023
Data acquired July 26, 2023

Source:
NOAA-20 > VIIRS