Cool Geo-Pic from NASA's Earth Observatory: Sediment off the Yucatan Peninsula
Beautiful image of sediment flow in the Gulf of Mexico on the western coast of the Yucatan.
download large image (2 MB, JPEG) acquired December 14, 2008
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A burst of color lit the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula on December 14, 2008, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. The swirls of tan, green, blue, and white are most likely sediment in the water. The sediment scatters light, giving the water its color. The sediment comes from two sources: the land and the sea floor. Some of the color may also come from phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms that live in the sun-lit surface waters of the ocean.
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