Landsat 7 Looks at Banks
The different shades in these images highlight various features specific to each coral colony. Patches of bright red show places where coral reefs are actively populated with living organisms.
But over time, while the surrounding ocean wears
away the main body of the island, the coral ring remains.
Coral forms off shore from volcanic islands in
tropical latitudes.
developing a barrier reef thats separated by a
growing lagoon.
Credits
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Animator
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Serge Andrefouet (University of South Florida)
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, October 23, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.