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Satellite view of Earth.
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A Different View of Earth

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The tapetail is the larva of the family. It transforms into either a male (bignose) or female whalefish.
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Meet the Whalefish Family

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Screenshot from the video with illustrations of tiny ocean microbes.
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How a Microscopic Team Alters the Course of Carbon in the Atlantic Ocean

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You can explore the Curasub from your computer! Inspect, launch, board and recover to get an idea of what it's like to mann an underwater submersible.
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Tour the Curasub!

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During whale hunts, this carved whale box stored harpoon blades like the three shown beside it.
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Inupiat Harpoon Box

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This halimeda crab’s disguise did not fool researchers in Moorea where it was collected.
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Halimeda Crab

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This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis.
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Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora

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Macroscopic Algae (Ventricaria ventricosa)
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Bubble Algae (Ventricaria ventricosa)

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The Block Island wind farm is the first operational offshore wind farm in the United States. It consists of five wind turbines which powered up in December 2016 and were connected to the mainland energy grid in May 2017. 
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Wind Turbines off of Block Island

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A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to find out if it is a known or new species.
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Genetic Analysis of Coral

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A small, brown eelpout fish.
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Adolf’s Eelpout

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Broad-leaf seagrass (Posidonia australis) with algae epiphytes grows at Corner Inlet Marine National Park in Australia.
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Seagrass with Epiphytes

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