NOAA's Robot Found A Golden Orb 3,250 Meters Down. Scientists Finally Figure Out What It Was
The "golden orb" that stumped NOAA's deep-sea team in 2023 is the discarded base of a giant deep-sea anemone, according to a preprint posted to bioRxiv on April 21 and a NOAA release the next day. The orb turned up on Aug. 30, 2023, on Dive 7 of the Seascape Alaska 5 expedition, when the remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer, working from NOAA Ship O…
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