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Screenshot from video tour of the Chikyu showing an illustration of the ship on water.
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Tour the Chikyu

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Screenshot from video of an aerial view of the ocean drilling vessel Chikyu.
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The Ocean Drilling Vessel Chikyu

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A screenshot from video showing an illustration of a satellite view of Earth.
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Just How Big Is the Ocean?

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as sea turtle at the surface
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Exploring Ocean Life with an Underwater Vehicle

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a pink coral
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Corals in the Juan de Fuca Canyon and the Davidson Seamount

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A close up of a sediment core.
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Sediment Core Close-Up

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The deepest point on earth is the Mariana Trench.
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Mariana Trench

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A brittle star sits in the middle of a deep sea octocoral that is damaged from a nearby oil spill
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Oil spill damaged octocoral

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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Deep Sea Dive

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Down below where the sunlight cannot penetrate, the ocean is a dark, cold and alien landscape. Can life really exist in such an extreme environment? NOAA Ocean Today Every Full Moon takes a look at the bizarre and remarkable creatures that persist in the d
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Creep into the Deep

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A photo of an arid ocean cliff in Chile's Atacama Desert with the ocean below.
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert

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