Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

This NASA Aqua satellite handout image of millions of tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton, shows the bright blue and green swirls that the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) detected off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. A giant growth of algae in the waters off Canada's west coast, so huge it can be seen from space, may be linked to climate change, say scientists who hope to collect samples 30 June 2006.(AFP/NASA-HO/Jeff Schmaltz)