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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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