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Turquoise Tendrils

In March 2017, phytoplankton bloomed off the coast of Tunisia.


NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory image (bottom) by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017) processed by the European Space Agency. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published March 25, 2017
Data acquired March 9 - 18, 2017

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Sentinel-2
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response