Showing posts with label oceanography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oceanography. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Artifact from Apollo 11...

discovered in 14,000 ft of water in the Atlantic Ocean by the guy that founded Amazon.com: Bezos Expeditions F-1 Engine Recovery.  Pretty cool, especially if they can raise them intact.

Here's a previous post showing the last Saturn V rocket on display at the Kennedy Space Center that I toured last April.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Entire wreck site of Titantic mapped...

in high resolution for first time, showing the 3 x 5 mi (5 x 8 km) debris field in stunning detail, to be released next month on the 100 year anniversary of its sinking on 15 April 1912.  Here's a related article that includes some excellent images.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Ten crazy-looking...

new deep-sea creatures. Given these, can you imagine what we'll find swimming beneath the ice encrusted ocean on Europa?

Monday, November 23, 2009

Abyssal depths are teeming...

with bizarre marine life: Thousands of Strange Sea Creatures Discovered. More on this story here.

See even more images of these interesting creatures at the Census of Marine Life image gallery.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Challenger Deep...

in the Marianas Trench has been visited by a remotely operated submarine named Nereus, diving to a maximum depth of 10,902 meters (6.8 miles.) At that depth, pressures reach 1,100 times the atmospheric pressure at the Earth's surface! Wow.

UPDATE: This dive apparently established a world record.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Flotsam...

in service of science to map ocean gyres. Clever work.