Photo of the Week

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I Spy Something Fishy

July 27, 2020
A series of seafloor images collected by the HabCam. The top left is a field of sea stars, the top right and bottom right show arrays of scallops, and the bottom left shows a hiding goosefish…can you see it?

Photo: NOAA

The camera ability on HabCam is impressive. Since the places it is photographing are deep in the ocean where light is not penetrating, the HabCam is equipped with 4 strobe lights to light up the bottom of the ocean. These are timed with the camera, so they turn on at the proper time so get the best picture possible. The camera itself takes 6 pictures per second, which equates to about 500,000 images per day or 2.7 terabytes worth of data.
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12 photos for Sharp · Clear

Investigating Threats to ScallopsAugust 9, 2021Winter Flounder-landDecember 7, 2020I Spy Something FishyJuly 27, 2020Sailing Into the RainbowMarch 11, 2019Sometimes, a Fluke is just a FlukeJune 12, 2017What stands sea scallops apart from other bivalves?June 27, 2016“Ocean pout– eats sand dollars”July 21, 2014“Scallops have eyes that line the edges of both top and bottom shells.October 21, 2013“The sea mouse is actually a polychaete which is a type of marine segmented worm.”July 29, 2013“Following each seafloor dredge tow, the science and engineering teams work to shuck the largest of the scallops for closer analysis.”July 8, 2013“Following each seafloor dredge tow, the science and engineering teams work to shuck the largest of the scallops for closer analysis.”July 8, 2013“We continue to see skates, various fishes, lobsters and sand dollars, and in places, huge amounts of scallops.”November 19, 2012