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The Statue of Liberty Nebula🌌🗽✨

The first photos are coming in from Artemis II, and they are stunning. Photos of our home planet from humans we are sending further than anyone has gone before.

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And now two more. The first of which being taken by Commander Reid Wiseman just minutes from the other Blue Marble picture seen above, showcasing the effect of different camera setting on space photography. Pictures of our home, where all but four of us are looking up from.

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Tag along with a giant cusk eel scavenger patrol 👀👃🏽⁠

Sometimes referred to as “swimming noses,” giant cusk eels (Spectrunculus grandis) rely on their large olfactory organs to sniff out their next meal. They are not picky eaters and will dine on a variety of bottom-dwelling invertebrates like crustaceans, worms, and sea stars, and animal carcasses.

Giant cusk-eels are common worldwide and call the abyssal zone—the sprawling, flat deep ocean floor—their home. We frequently encounter Spectrunculus at our deep-sea research sites offshore of California. Here in the famous Octopus Garden, they fill their bellies with dead octopus. ⁠

Spectrunculus is just one of the many fascinating animals that thrive on the abyssal seafloor. Next time you think about our ocean, remember these charming and curious deep-sea neighbors roaming the seafloor, sniffing out their next meal. ⁠You can learn more about these fascinating fish in our Animals of the Deep gallery.