Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.