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Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) image of the Great Barrier Reef.
Great Barrier Reef		 Cuckbill eel in sand channel between basalt flows at 780 meters depth.
Undersea
basalt flows		 Scientists study coral reefs for many reasons.
Coral reef
Cormorant
Cormorant		 Mother and juvenile dolphins.
Dolphins		 Guinea-Bissou, West Africa. Color-enhanced LandSat image show patterns of silt washing from rivers into Atlantic Ocean.
River silt washes
into ocean
Humpback whale leaps clear out of water.
Humpback whale		 El Nino of 1997 and La Nina of 1999 conditions shown on colorized globes made from TOPEX/Poseidon satellite data. Colors show the different heights of the ocean surface.
El Niño and El Niña		 Ocean topography as measured by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, Oct. 3-12, 1992. Colors show the different heights of the ocean surface.
Ocean topography
Oil spilled from off-shore oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico near louisiana, 1992.
Oil spill		 Stellar sea lions.
Sea lions		 Sponges are as important as corals for reef structure.
Sponges and corals
Tsunami waves in Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Landa, Dec. 26, 2004. Image taken by MISR instrument on Terra satellite.
Tsunami waves,
Sri Lanka		 Walrus swimming in the ice floes of the Bering Sea.
Walrus in
Bering Sea		 Sponge that has symbiotic algae and has bleached like a coral.
Bleached sponge

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