Underwater Exploration And Marine Life

Images showcase underwater scenes including experimental habitats, jellyfish, and objects swimming in blue ocean depths, reflecting a serene aquatic environment.

Abstract digital network visualization representing connectivity and data

Abstract digital network visualization representing connectivity and data

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Box jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, Egypt, Sha'ab Shouna, Red Sea, Africa

Blue Shark biting diver wearing protective chain mail suit

Enhydra lutris. Creator: Kenyon Karl W.

plume coming out of Brimstone Pit crater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. Dated 2004

S66-63485 (13 Nov. 1966) --- Iran, Trucial Coast, Oman, Zagros Mountains, and Qishm Island (large island at lower left), as seen from the Gemini-12 spacecraft during its 25th revolution of Earth. Gulf of Oman is at lower left edge and the Persian Gulf is large body of water in upper half of photo.

A scuba diver films a ball of Slender Silversides, Hypoatherina barnesi, South Ari Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean

diver blowing bubble ring

STS111-368-036 (5-19 June 2002) --- This photo, giving detail of the Pompey Island Group in the Southern Great Barrier Reef off Australia, was taken by the STS-111 crewmembers aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Ocean flow between the islands has produced unique wash features in the structures of the island banks.

Close up view of a deceased sperm whale with necropsy marks

Illustration of blue sea underwater with air bubbles

Oceanic Blue Shark - Diver testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit (Prionace glauca). Eastern Pacific. Distribution: Tropical and Temperate waters, Worldwide.

A multi-angle view of the Canary Islands in a dust storm, 29 February 2000. At left is a true-color image taken by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.

Marine snow, detrital/particulate matter surrounding two adjacent pipes on reef.

Giant barrel jellyfish - rhizostoma luteum

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Earth Observations taken by Expedition 34 crewmember.

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October 25, 2007 - Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the International Space Station during STS-120 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 7:40 a.m. (CDT) on October 25, 2007. The Harmony node is visible in Discovery's cargo bay.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A crew member on Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, monitors the progress as the massive parachute from the right spent booster from space shuttle Discovery's final launch is hauled on board. The shuttle's two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered in the Atlantic Ocean after every launch by Freedom Star and Liberty Star. The boosters impact the Atlantic about seven minutes after liftoff and the retrieval ships are stationed about 10 miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. After the spent segments are processed, they will be transported to Utah, where they will be refurbished and stored, if needed.

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Blue Whale excrements Sea of Cortez Mexico

NASAs Landing and Recovery team practice bringing a test version of the Orion capsule into the well deck of a Navy ship during Underway Recovery Test-8. During the test, the team practiced to ensure recovery procedure timelines are validated as NASA plans to send Artemis I around the Moon and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

Earth Observations taken by Expedition 38 crewmember. Image was released by astronaut on Twitter.

S66-15463 (18 Dec. 1965) --- Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 14-day Gemini-7 spaceflight, is hoisted from the water by a recovery helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. Gemini-7 splashed down in the western Atlantic recovery area at 9 05 a.m. (EST), Dec. 18, 1965, to conclude the record-breaking mission in space. Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. is the Gemini-7 pilot.

Diver examining partially melted ice underwater. Lake Baikal, Russia, April 2013. Model released.

010629-N-3093M-004. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Satellite view of Tonga. This image was compiled from data acquired by LANDSAT 5 & 7 satellites.

Endemic Mastigias Jellyfish (Mastigias papua etpisonii)

Diver looking into an ice hole, subglacial diving, ice diving, in the frozen Black Sea, a rare phenomenon, last time it occured in 1977, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe

Dead sperm whale in state of putrefaction on the beach

Plankton bioluminescence (with Balis Mt Agung volcano)

At Launch Pad 39A, the external tank attached to Space Shuttle Atlantis shows damage from hail bombardment during a strong thunderstorm that passed through Kennedy Space Center about 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 26. A full assessment of the storm's impact is under way. The two-day STS-117 Flight Readiness Review is being held concurrently with the assessment. Hail also impacted Space Shuttle Columbia before the launch of STS-4 in 1982; Atlantis, being readied for STS-38 in 1990; and Discovery, before the launch of STS-96 in 1999.

Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. is hoisted up to a Navy helicopter while astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. waits in a life raft below after the splashdown of the Gemini-5 spacecraft.

Male figure diving with the internal organs visible.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-5 Splashdown. Support teams raise the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onto the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon shortly after it landed with with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina are returning after 157 days in space as part of Expedition 68 aboard the International Space Station.

Observation tube, researchers use this for underwater observations, Antarctica

Common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) caught in gill net, observed by diver at night, Huatampo, Mexico, Gulf of California, Pacific Ocean. Model released. May 2008.

Low angle view of a commercial fishing net

Fish - Ray underside

Diver in Shark cages, Mexico, Pacific ocean, Guadalupe

Cage diving with the Great white shark, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Central America

Divers in Nemon 33 pool, the deepest swimming pool in Europe, Belguim, Europe

Luxottica, Eyeglasses Factory

Artist's concept showing how Saturn might appear from within a hypothetical ice cave on the surface of Iapetus

NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 Splashdown. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Lindgren, Hines, Watkins, and Cristoforetti are returning after 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.

Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor core powered up, with the fuel plates glowing bright blue. The core is submerged in water for cooling.

120630-N-PO203-241 PACIFIC OCEAN(Jun. 30, 2012) 55 feet remain visible after the crew of the Floating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, partially flood the ballast tanks causing the vessel to turn stern first into the ocean. The 355-foot research vessel, owned by the Office of Naval Research and operated by the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, conducts investigations in a number of fields, including acoustics, oceanography, meteorology and marine mammal observation.

Varieties of fishes inside of floating nets in an offshore cage culture, Brunei

Close-up Of Fish Sonar Showing Depth And Fish On Lake Nipissing

BRUV (Baited remote underwater video) monitoring of large marine fish, sharks, rays and turtles. MarAlliance, Lighthouse Reef, Atoll, Belize

Bob Ballard Exploration

3d illustration of man with protective suit,

NEBULOSA CANGREJO - 2003 - TECNICA MIXTA SOBRE TELA - 200x230. Author: UGALDE JUAN 1958-. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.

Aerial view of a boat cutting through surface oil near the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USA; Louisiana, United States of America

This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Republic of Maldives, a country located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of India. It comprises twenty-six atolls, and 1192 coral islands, with an average ground elevation of 1.5 m.

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Illustration of a sperm whale

Gemini 8 After Splash Down

Subsurface Cave Bacteria

Artemis I Orion Recovery Operations. NASAs Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022 off the coast of Baja California. After launching atop the Space Launch System rocket on Nov. 16, 2022 from the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orion spent 25.5 days in space before returning to Earth, completing the Artemis I mission.

Tapocyon robustus, Carnivora, Miocene of Utah.

Vintage Photograph. Skin diver geologist using camera in watertight case to photograph specimen on location.

Blue SHARK - Valerie Taylor testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit in open ocean, 72 miles off the Californian Coast. (Prionace glauca). San Diego, USA. Widely distributed, found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.

Bob Ballard Exploration

Pectinidae fossils, Sahara desert, Egypt.

Direct Aerial Bomb Hit. A direct bomb hit marked by black smoke sends chips flying from iceberg target. Dropped from a Coast Guard UF-2G plane, the bomb was a 1,000-lb. general purpose conventional type used during aerial iceberg destruction tests conducted by the Coast Guard plane from May 23 to 30. The iceberg is 150 ft. height, 300 ft. wide, and weighs about 1,000,000 tons. It is located 160 miles northeast of Argentia, Newfoundland.

Exploratory buoy in the old colors (from before the ILA system from approx. 1972).

The 'TERRA NOVA' in McMurdo Sound. From 'Scott's Last Expedition ....', 1913.

Dr. Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist for STS-7, moves through the hatchway of the mockup of the Space Shuttle orbiter which is part of JSC's weightless environment training facility (WETF). Thagard is wearing an extravehicular mobility unit and is practicing procedures used when performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during a flight.

Vintage Photograph. Exploring the ocean depths: a couple's underwater adventure.

Giant squid. Remains of a squid of the genus Architeuthis found drifting dead (probably attacked and eaten in part by a pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus). It is a species that lives at great depths (+500 m) and on very few occasions has it been possible to film or photograph it alive. Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Noctiluca miliaris, sea sparkle (Noctiluca scintillans), dinoflagellates, Other animals, Animals, Dinoflagellate swarm of luminescent dinoflagellate, English Channel, England, summer

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A diver helps lower sonar mapping equipment into the water alongside the Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships. The equipment will be attached to the ship's hull for an eight-day expedition surveying deep-water coral reefs on the Oculina Banks off eastern Florida. NASA joins the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other ocean scientists for the sophisticated mapping system that will provide the first high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the Oculina Banks. The survey results are expected to guide another expedition in Spring 2003, using NASA's ship, when the reef fish spawn. Also used will be NASA's underwater robot and an acoustic hydrophone system for listening to fish and vessel noise. Dive sites will be chosen based on the new charts.

Bob Ballard Exploration

Diver is swimming near International Space Station - Hydrolab: Neutral Buoyancy Training Module for Space teams, Zvezdniy Gorodok, Russia

This is a photograph of the Spacelab module for the first United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) mission, showing logos of the Spacelab mission on the left and the USML-1 mission on the right. The USML-1 was one part of a science and technology program that opened NASA's next great era of discovery and established the United States' leadership in space. From investigations designed to gather fundamental knowledge in a variety of areas to demonstrations of new equipment, USML-1 forged the way for future USML missions and helped prepare for advanced microgravity research and processing aboard the Space Station. Thirty-one investigations comprised the payload of the first USML-1 mission. The experiments aboard USML-1 covered five basic areas fluid dynamics, the study of how liquids and gases respond to the application or absence of differing forces; crystal growth, the production of inorganic and organic crystals; combustion science, the study of the processes and phenomena of bur

Breeding of medicinal Leeches in basins Germany

41C-02-067 (6-13 April 1984) --- One of the first major accomplishments of Flight 41-C s crew aboard the Challenger was to place this giant satellite into Earth orbit. Still attached to the remote manipulator system (RMS) end effector, the Long-Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is backdropped against Florida, the Bahama Bank, the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic waters. The multi-colored cylinder carries 50-odd passive scientific experiments representing 194 investigators from around world. The LDEF program is directed by the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The facility will be retrieved in a little less than a year by a Space Shuttle crew. This frame was one of the visuals used by the 41-C astronauts for their April 24, 1984 post-flight press conference. Cape Canaveral, where this seven-day mission got its start, and Lake Okeechobee, are easily recognized in the frame, photographed shortly before 11 30 a.m. (CST), April 7, 1984.

Skull on sandy ocean bottom with small fish cleaning some bones ( 3d render with slight differential focus)

C-5 Re-engineering and Realiability Program semi-span model; 11ft w.t. Test-11-0103; Throught flow nacelle and inboard nacelle with turbine propulsion systems unit with Doug Atler

PHOTO DATE: 09-17-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool Topside SUBJECT: Expedition 40/41 crew members Greg Wiseman and Alexander Gerst during pre-dive briefing, preparations and suitup, then lowering into the water.

USA, Florida, Marine scientists study Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) by counting nests and eggs monitoring health of this endangered species

Fish and Wildlife Service worker with cored sediment samples from riverbed for contaminant analysis. Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Biologists (USFWS);Coastal restoration;Employees (USFWS);Contaminants. Collection: Environmental Sciences.. 1998 - 2011.

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma Island, Parque Nacional Caldera de Taburiente national park, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, The Florian Goebel MAGIC Telescopes

Human skull on ocean floor

Pen containing almaco jacks Seriola rivoliana, off the Big Island of Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific, North America Copyright: RyanxRossotto 1387-20

Marine scientists study the Leatherback Turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea ) . Counting nests and eggs monitors the health of this endangered species, Florida

Representation of an iceberg showing 90 percent of its mass is underwater - Weddell Sea in Antarctica

Horseshoe Crab (Mesolimulus walchi) fossil placed next to modern Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), species is 180 million year old, Bavaria, Germany

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