SeaWiFS: Tasman Sea Bloom

It's about midway through spring in the southern hemisphere. Yesterday, the Orbview-2 satellite transmitted this SeaWiFS image of a multihued phytoplankton bloom off the northwest coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published November 6, 2000
Data acquired November 5, 2000

Source:

OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS

Topics:

Biosphere > Microbiota > Phytoplankton

Biosphere > Vegetation > Phytoplankton