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Description A closeup of a small mass of sargassum weed. The numerous small round spheres are floats filled with oxygen.1 These provide buoyancy to the algae.
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Ocean Explorer/NOAA

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9 August 2002

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100

exposure time

0.0044843049327354 second

f-number

7.8

focal length

14.4 millimetre

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current15:39, 15 September 2006Thumbnail for version as of 15:39, 15 September 2006600 × 450 (110 KB)Mats Halldin~commonswiki{{Information |Description=A closeup of a small mass of sargassum weed. The numerous small round spheres are floats filled with carbon dioxide. These provide buoyancy to the algae. |Source=[http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/logs/aug09/media

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