onsdag 3 september 2008

Länktips: Mjölksjöar



Verkligheten kommer ikapp myten: Mystery ocean glow confirmed in satellite photos

Mariners have long told of rare nighttime events in which the ocean glows intensely as far as the eye can see in all directions.

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The newly released images show a vast region of the Indian Ocean, about the size of Connecticut, glowing three nights in a row. The luminescence was also spotted from a ship in the area.

"The circumstances under which milky seas form is almost entirely unknown," says Steven Miller, a Naval Research Laboratory scientist who led the space-based discovery. "Even the source for the light emission is under debate."

För det första: Det måste vara så sagolikt vackert.

För det andra: Det finns ingenting som är så uppmuntrande som en förbluffad vetenskapsman.

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