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Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere

Mataiva Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, South Pacific Ocean

"The Tuamotu Archipelago is part of French Polynesia, and forms the largest chain of atolls in the world. This astronaut photograph features Mataiva Atoll, the westernmost atoll of the Tuamotu chain. An atoll is a ring-shaped island that encloses a central lagoon."

Filed under  //   8.31.10   Earth   Islands   Ocean   places  

Amazing Jellies

                                                                       

http://www.kqed.org/quest/

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Trouble in Paradise

A satellite image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on May 17, 2010, showing a long ribbon of oil stretched far to the southeast. Credit: NASA NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team.

Filed under  //   Disasters   Ecology   Energy   Ocean  

"City of Gonads" Discovered

It's just so completely different from anything we've ever seen before,"

Filed under  //   animals   Discoveries   Fish   nature   Ocean  

Illuminating Bioluminescence

 

Filed under  //   animals   Light   nature   Ocean  

Clownfish and Anemone

 

Filed under  //   Fish   Ocean  

Urban Life at Sea

 

Filed under  //   architecture   Ocean  

Sea Eddies

Two large ocean circulation features, called eddies, are at the northernmost edge of the sea ice pack (seen in green) in the Weddell Sea. The eddy processes in the Antarctic region play an important role in the circulation of the global ocean and the transportation of heat toward the pole.

The image was produced by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar on Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Filed under  //   Astronomy   Earth   Ocean