In September, NASA‘s Visible Earth website and its contents will be assimilated into a new home on science.nasa.gov. This integration will unfortunately bring an end to our RSS feeds. If you are a user of these feeds and have a need to continue using them, please contact us so that we might be able to point you in other directions, if possible.

Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea - selected image

Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea - selected child image

Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea - related image preview

Data acquired February 9, 2023
720 x 480
JPEG

Data acquired February 9, 2023
1531 x 1594
1 MB Bytes - JPEG

Data acquired February 11, 2023
720 x 480
JPEG

Data acquired February 11, 2023
1531 x 1594
2 MB - JPEG

Data acquired February 12, 2023
720 x 480
JPEG

Data acquired February 12, 2023
6678 x 4675
5 MB - JPEG

720 x 480
JPEG

Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea

Fierce storms can dislodge carbonate sediment from shallow underwater platforms and move it into deeper waters.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Allison Nussbaum, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 7, 2023
Data acquired February 9 - 11, 2023

Sources:: Landsat 9 > OLI-2; Terra > MODIS