期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2022
卷号：119
期号：29
DOI：10.1073/pnas.2207612119
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：“Milky seas” are massive swaths of uniformly and steadily glowing ocean seen at night. The phenomenon is thought to be caused by luminous bacteria, but details of milky sea composition, structure, cause, and implications in nature remain largely uncertain. Between late July and early September 2019, specialized low-light satellite sensors detected a possible bioluminescent milky sea south of Java, Indonesia, spanning >100,000 km
2. Upon learning of these findings, crew members of the yacht
Ganesha reached out to confirm and share details of their personal encounter with this same event. Here, we document
Ganesha’s experience as recalled by the crew, compare their course to satellite data, and assess their photography of this milky sea.
