mon océan & moi

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Radiolarians  (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)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)