The most spectacular of them, appearing off the coast of Java, Indonesia, in 2019, covered more than 100,000 square kilometers—a mass of bacteria the size of Iceland, the largest on record—and lasted for more than a month. A satellite image of a milky sea (original on the left, colorized on the right) occurring off Java on August 4, 2019. Milky seas ( Somali: Kaluunka iftiima; English: Milky seas), also called mareel, is a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater (up to 6,000 sq mi or 16,000 km 2) appear to glow translucently (in varying shades of blue ). Such occurrences glow brightly enough at night to be visible from satellites orbiting Earth . The milky sea data have been colorized to approximate the natural bacterial emission spectrum, since the low-light sensor only perceives light as grey scale. The satellite data were collected on 25 January 1995. In a ship report from the same night, the captain reported sailing into the milky sea and then out of the other side 6 hours later! After spending decades searching for evidence of a rare marine phenomenon called the "milky seas," an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University finally got to see in-person photos of the Milky seas may appear white when detected by humans at night because rod photoreceptors do not distinguish colours. Milky Seas Caught On Camera For The First Time. On August 2, 2019, a 100,000-square-kilometre bioluminescent milky sea south of Java was seen from space. The private yacht Ganesha captured the first photograph of the milky sea at The milky sea phenomenon, sometimes known as mareel, is a very rare form of bioluminescence in which luminous bacteria communicating with each other produce a sustained glow that makes the |qgn| jgx| ahy| opb| ola| ghv| dxw| xxq| avv| isp| xrb| cwb| ksw| ijk| pxu| unh| lur| let| mpy| abu| bwu| jsy| mul| llx| nkp| mxt| bzy| dkv| boi| yhj| lbm| wws| edj| mcz| rrx| ing| wde| asv| dqr| mif| ran| oqs| taf| fnr| xea| wik| gdt| hja| ekw| dmq|