Bubbles from a gas seep are imaged by the high definition cameras on the Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2012. Download larger version (jpg, 1.7 MB).
Bubbles from a gas seep are imaged by the high definition cameras on the Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2012. Download larger version (jpg, 1.7 MB).
The second remotely operated vehicle dive of the cruise was conducted today at site "BiloxiA" on the Biloxi salt dome. Like yesterday, today's dive focused on exploring and ground-truthing a series of sonar observations believed to be methane seeps in order to identify locations to conduct follow-on seep flux measurement experiments. Complementary repeat sonar surveys are being conducted at night in order to characterize the temporal variability of the seep features observed in the water column.
