Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Shrimp on Ice
What happens when you drill an 8 inch hole into the Antarctic ice, stick a camera down 600 feet, and then start filming? Well, if you are a NASA research team hoping to observe the undersides of an ice sheet it means you see a really cool shrimp instead. The team found that when they pulled their camera tether up there was a long tentacle, maybe from a jellyfish, stuck to it and a shrimp-like creature swam into view.
Neat.
Here's the Washington Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031502856.html
Labels:
crustaceans,
invertebrates,
oceanography,
videos
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