This oblique #AquaMODIS Florida view shows coastal water turned turquoise by seafloor sediments that were mixed upwards when #HurricaneIan plowed through. Near shore, sediment & #dissolvedOrganicMatter from land color the water brown.

Large version here:

With MODIS we notice uncountable protists*.
Small phytos, en masse, paint a wonder down under.

#TasmanSea #ChathamRise

Full 8 November 2022 #AquaMODIS composite here:

* I imagine the cyanobacteria contribute too, but that would be a different rhyme. 🤔

Another winter, another #NoctilucaScintillans bloom in the #ArabianSea, spied beneath a pall of atmospheric aerosols by #AquaMODIS.

Larger version of the image available here:

#Bretagne #Morbihan #Incendie
Vue satellitaire de la forêt de #Brocéliande (visible en vert au centre de l'image) où à 20h45, 120 hectares de végétation avaient déjà brûlé😥
Le panache de fumée est bien visible sur la partie occidentale de la forêt.
📸🛰#AquaMODIS

The British Isles are seldom so cloud free, so I thought this recent #AquaMODIS view worth sharing, especially since the spring phytoplankton bloom had painted the ocean so nicely.

John of Gaunt never got to see "This earth of majesty" from such a perspective.

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