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Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.

Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.
Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.
Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.
Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.
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Honjo, Susumu
Marine snow at 55 meters in Monterey Bay.
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03/26/2020
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 56, No. 2, Pg. 12:
"Marine snow" is a catchall term for organic detritus and fecal pellets that clump together to form millimeter-long flakes as they fall through the water column. This image was captured at 55 meters (180 feet) in Monterey Bay, California, by a light-scattering optical device that also counts and estimates the size of particles.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 40, No. 2, Pg. 3:
A component of "marine snow" was captured at 55 meters in Monterey Bay, California, by a light scattering optical device that also counts and estimates the size of individual particles contained in a cubic meter of water. The view includes individually settling fecal pellets as well as amorphous aggregates that look like white flakes, which are half to several millimeters in diameter and often host a large number of fecal pellets. Zooplankton produce the weblike material that helps agglutinate particles to form aggregates.
Courtesy of Susumu Honjo
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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