Keith’s note: I was just on a media telecon with Astronaut Loral O’Hara who just returned from 204 days on the International Space Station.
Oceanography
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Nomenclature, Systematics, Natural History, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Salas y Gómez Ridge Seamount Away Team Expedition Discovers 50 New Life Forms
International team co-led by a BSC researcher discovers more than 50 new deep-sea species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet.
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Press Release, Terraforming & Geoengineering
Terraforming And Planetary Engineering: Study Underscores Uncertain Costs Of Iron Fertilization
Editor’s note: It is a common thing to sit back and imagine what other worlds are like, if we can live there, and how we might need to modify the […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Unlocking Clearer Views Of Water Worlds: A Landsat Legacy
Editor’s note: we are finding worlds orbiting other stars that may well be water worlds. These worlds may similar in some ways to our own and most likely different at […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Moon, Press Release, TRAPPIST-1, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Moonlight-driven Biological Choruses In Hawaiian Coral Reefs
Editor’s note: Our world is more or less a double planet. Our large Moon creates significant tidal forces that drive much of the way that our oceans circulate and mix. […]
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Even Inactive Hydrothermal Smokers Are Densely Colonized By Microbial Communities
With its high pressure, darkness and nutrient deficiency, the deep sea is generally not a hospitable place. But in the presence of heat and a rich influx of energy-rich fluids, […]
Posted inExtinction events, Fossils & Paleontology, Impact events, Press Release
Post-Impact Changes In Earth’s Ocean Ecology
Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs.
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Orbital Biosignature Survey: Satellites Unveil The Size And Nature Of The World’s Coral Reefs
University of Queensland-led research has shown there is more coral reef area across the globe than previously thought, with detailed satellite mapping helping to conserve these vital ecosystems.
Posted inEnceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Icy Worlds, Press Release, Titan, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Ice Shell Thickness Reveals Water Temperature On Ocean Worlds
Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Extinction events, Fossils & Paleontology, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Oxygen Increased In Earth’s Tropical Ocean During The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Oxygenation in the tropical North Pacific Ocean increased during a warm climatic interval that occurred roughly 56 million years ago, despite high global temperatures, according to a new study.