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Bloom in Lake Okeechobee

An early summer algae bloom in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee has been blamed for affecting water quality downstream all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 6, 2016
Data acquired July 2, 2016

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI