{"id":3870,"date":"2016-05-04T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:37:14","slug":"photography-a-jellyfish-moment-of-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/photography-a-jellyfish-moment-of-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: A jellyfish moment of zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely aliens among us\u2014if you count 2.3 miles under the surface of the sea as being \u201camong us\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGFh3UNvuCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Deep-diving NOAA writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This stunningly beautiful jellyfish was seen during Dive 4 of the 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 24, 2016, while exploring Enigma Seamount at a depth of ~3,700 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists identified this hydromedusa as belonging to the genus Crossota. Note the two sets of tentacles \u2014 short and long. At the beginning of the video, you&#8217;ll see that the long tentacles are even and extended outward and the bell is motionless. This suggests an ambush predation mode. Within the bell, the radial canals in red are connecting points for what looks like the gonads in bright yellow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jelly-1.jpg\" alt=\"jelly-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QGFh3UNvuCQ\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/05\/bioluminescent-jellyfish\/?mc_cid=9cd9c43700&amp;mc_eid=07ff7c6647\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely aliens among us\u2014if you count 2.3 miles under the surface of the sea as being \u201camong us\u201d: \u2028 Deep-diving NOAA writes, This stunningly beautiful jellyfish was seen during Dive 4 of the 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 24, 2016, while exploring Enigma Seamount at a depth of ~3,700 meters. Scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}