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Making Waves in Marlborough Sounds

Strong tidal currents, changes in the sea floor, and winds funneling through Cook Strait stir complicated flow patterns off of New Zealand’s South Island.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 2, 2018
Data acquired December 2, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI