SeaWiFS Images : Asia

All images courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, unless otherwise noted.

(Click on image to enlarge) Yangtze River Flood and Plume Tuesday, August 4, 1998 Image collected at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

(Click on image to enlarge) This true-colour image shows bright, turquoise-coloured swirls across the surface of the Black Sea, signifying the presence of a large phytoplankton bloom. Scientists have observed similar blooms recurring annually, roughly this same time of year. The Sea of Azov, which is the smaller body of water located just north of the Black Sea in this image, also shows a high level of biological activity currently ongoing. The brownish pixels in the Azov are probably sediments carried in from high waters upstream. This scene was acquired by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), flying aboard the OrbView-2 satellite, on May 4, 2002. Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE