Started by Moira Gallagher (@moira_at_sea) ·
glowing seas you can see from space
Sailors described the sea glowing white to the horizon for centuries and nobody believed them. Then satellites caught an area the size of Connecticut glowing in 1995.
5 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “milky seas satellite”
- Ended at
- Anglerfish
The Trail
- “milky seas satellite” (google.com)
- Milky seas effect (en.wikipedia.org)
- Bioluminescence (en.wikipedia.org)
- Vibrio harveyi (en.wikipedia.org)
- Anglerfish (en.wikipedia.org)
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