Editor’s note: As we plan to use robotic probes to explore worlds in our solar system with oceans, missions that explore Earth’s oceans can serve as important pathfinders.
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Away Team Ops: How NOAA Scientists Virtually Discovered A New Species of Comb Jelly
[Originally Posted by NOAA on 20 November 2020] A NOAA Fisheries research team discovered Duobrachium sparksae, a new species of ctenophore, or comb jelly. The discovery was made during an […]
Exploring Ocean Worlds: FathomNet: New Open-source Image Database Unlocks The Power Of AI For Ocean Exploration
A new collaborative effort between MBARI and other research institutions is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate efforts to study the ocean.
NOAA Satellites See Bioluminescence From Orbit
A recent study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), a NOAA partner located at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. Co., found that satellites from […]
Hunting for Alien Life at the Bottom of the Arctic Ocean
A team of oceanographers are heading out on a voyage of discovery this month, exploring in detail for the first time a hydrothermal vent field in the Arctic Ocean. They […]
Extremophile Life-form Survey on Rocky Exoplanets
Search for different life-forms elsewhere is the fascinating area of research in astrophysics and astrobiology. Nearly 3500 exoplanets are discovered according to NASA exoplanet archive database. Earth Similarity Index (ESI) […]
