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The attached MODIS-Aqua image(s) were generated by the automated Ocean-Color Data
Processing System (ODPS).  

There is a color bar legend on the Ocean Color Home Page if you chose not to
have the color bar appended to the image:

http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/HTML/colorbars.html


Regards from the Ocean Biology Processing Group

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