An Emerald Vortex - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

An Emerald Vortex - related image preview

3524 x 3703
10 MB - JPEG

An Emerald Vortex - related image preview

720 x 545
PNG

An Emerald Vortex - related image preview

JPEG

An Emerald Vortex

Fast-growing duckweed can leave swirls of green in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response and Sea Surface Temperature data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/MUR. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published February 23, 2017
Data acquired February 15, 2017

Sources:
Aqua > AMSR-E
Aqua > MODIS
Coriolis > WindSat
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2
In situ Measurement
NOAA-19 POES > AVHRR
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response