Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
