Its Friday afternoon, so a bit of fun is always good. I was taken with this photo story.
The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world’s oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate change.
The Argo programme uses thousands of floating devices like the one pictured, which provide continuous data from even the remotest parts of the world’s oceans.
They look like bouys, as above, and there are a lot of them out there. Its amazing how much coverage you get out of 3000 devices, given the scale of the world’s oceans.
I do hope the machines don’t end up like their namesake’s though- the original Argo collapsed, killing its famous skipper, Jason. The lesson – don’t mess with Hera….
bonus pic for the dorks amongst you.
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