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October 13, 2020: Cosmic Jellyfish

This ‘cosmic jellyfish’ won the Explorer’s Choice Photo Contest for the ‘Mysteries of the Water Column’ category as part of our Celebrating Our Ocean Planet campaign. The jellyfish is in a family of hydromedusae called Rhopalonematidae and was imaged feeding in the midwater environment at ~3,000 meters (1.86 miles) depth during the second dive of the 2017 American Samoa Expedition: Suesuega o le Moana o Amerika Samoa expedition. Through observations such as this, we can learn much about the animals in the midwater and what they are up to when we can catch them in an undisturbed manner.

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2017 American Samoa. Download larger version (jpg, 655 KB).

This ‘cosmic jellyfish’ won the Explorer’s Choice Photo Contest for the ‘Mysteries of the Water Column’ category as part of our Celebrating Our Ocean Planet campaign. The jellyfish is in a family of hydromedusae called Rhopalonematidae and was imaged feeding in the midwater environment at ~3,000 meters (1.86 miles) depth during the second dive of the 2017 American Samoa Expedition: Suesuega o le Moana o Amerika Samoa expedition. Through observations such as this, we can learn much about the animals in the midwater and what they are up to when we can catch them in an undisturbed manner.

From: Explorer’s Choice Photo Contest Archive.