GLIN==> Great Lakes imagery - 03/30/2009

Yesterday, NASA's AQUA satellite was passing over the western Great 
Lakes area and produced a nice image from the NASA Moderate Resolution 
Imaging Spectrophotometer (MODIS) device aboard AQUA.

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2009089/crefl2_143.A2009089185500-2009089190000.250m.jpg

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Notable.....   near shore phytoplankton from Chicago
to Stevensville, MI in Lake Michigan.   This could potentially be 
from a thermal bar effect.

Saginaw Bay, Western Lake Erie, Southeastern Lake St. Clair, 
Sandusky Bay  and near shore to Cleveland -- heavy 
turbidity from suspended solids evident and some phytoplankton noted.

Still lots of ice in the bays in northern Michigan, Wisconsin and in 
Lake Superior.

Northern Michigan snow cover line plainly visible.

The NASA MODIS Rapid Response System is available at:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Check out NASA's Earth Observatory at:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/


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