Take a look!ORCA’s Eye-in-the-Sea is currently online and bringing live video to you. If there is no live image here, it may be down temporarily.What am I looking at?Current experiment:A pig carcass was deployed on Sunday October 25th at the EITS location with the Remotely Operated Vehicle Doc Ricketts. The research team also collected some of the bones from the elephant seal and found some animals growing on them! |
Recent experiments:
- Electronic jelly experiments started on October 5th, 2009! They will continue for the next 2–3 weeks.
- A small elephant seal pup was found dead on a local beach and was collected for this experiment. It was placed on the ocean floor using a piece of railroad track as a weight in early July, 2009. There isn’t much left of the carcass as hagfish, sleeper sharks, tanner crabs, and many other organisms have been by to enjoy the food fall. Once the food is gone, some bioluminescence experiments will start—so you may see a flashing LED light (mimicing the bioluminescence of Atolla—a common jelly in this area).
Check out the MARS Observatory Photo Gallery to see if you can identify some of the creatures in the video.
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