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Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
This true-color MODIS image from June 11, 2002, shows the northeast coast of Brazil. In the waters along the Atlantic Coast, there are colorful swirls that could be a mixture of sediment churned up by tides and deposited by rivers and phytoplankton.