Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)