What do you see in this photo? 🔬
Students across the nation in all 50 states looked up at their class projector screen this year and witnessed what some describe as “alien-like life decked out in discoware grooving across the dance floor!”
While kids have access to a lot of interesting content these days, it's not often a student can watch microscopic life magnified and projected over the internet by plankton experts. The featured plankton was collected from surface waters just off of San Francisco, and shared nationwide as part of the celebration of NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary System’s 50th anniversary.
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NOAA staff took plankton on a road trip through cyberspace this year, engaging teachers and students in all 50 states.
What's going on in this clip?
This tiny free-swimming jellyfish larva is called an ephyra. As it feeds and grows it will develop the stinging tentacles of an adult jellyfish. Visual description: Translucent, microscopic living organism pulses several times.
Credit: Janai Southworth/NOAA/NMSF