Earth ID: 2012

Landsat 7 Looks at Pseudo Atolls

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on October 23, 2000

Located in tropical latitudes, the hard structures we know as coral are really the incremental build-ups of calcium carbonate deposited from the skeletal remains of these tiny colonial animals.

In many parts of the world coral is threatened from a variety of causes, some natural, some caused by people.

For More Information

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20001025coral_reef.html

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Serge Andrefouet (University of South Florida): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
Landsat-7/ETM+ 1999, 2000
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This item is part of this series:
Landsat 7 Coral Reefs

Goddard TV Tape:
G2000-097

Keywords:
SVS >> Atolls
SVS >> Banks
SVS >> Barriers
DLESE >> Biological oceanography
SVS >> Coral Reefs
NASA Science >> Earth