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• by Bonnie123

  I marked the ones with green square things as kelp, is this correct? are they kelp beds on the oil platforms?

  Posted February 3, 2015 1:01 AM

• by Bonnie123

  What are the red and blue things? are the fish beds of some sort?

  Posted February 3, 2015 1:02 AM

• by yshish

  Hi, all these colorful square-like structures are just artifacts, no need to pay any attention to them, you can ignore that:)

  Posted February 3, 2015 3:29 PM

• by Artman40

  However, there is indeed #kelp above the #artifacts as well.

  Posted February 3, 2015 10:03 PM

• by Bonnie123

  The article on the blog shows similar green squares in another location and they are basically man made reefs for kelp beds, required to be

  Posted February 4, 2015 4:53 AM

• by Bonnie123

  put in when they installed a nuclear power plants int the 1970s. These appear the same to me and since I know that there are a lot of oil

  Posted February 4, 2015 4:54 AM

• by Bonnie123

  platforms in this area it makes more sense that these are kelp beds on man made structures.

  Posted February 4, 2015 4:56 AM

• by Bonnie123

  Could one of the scientist add this picture to our field guide for us and explain it. I'm not the only one to ask about these. Thanks

  Posted February 4, 2015 4:57 AM

• by yshish

  No, these ones are definitely not man made reefs for kelp beds. You can see such artifacts over land or clouds as well AKP000kn9g

  Posted February 4, 2015 3:41 PM

• by yshish

  Compare to the ones from the blog: https://floatingforests.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/5457ff5469736d0f71393501.jpg They look much different

  Posted February 4, 2015 3:47 PM

• by Artman40

  That one you showed has mostly artificial kelp bed. This picture has natural kelp forest above all the artifacts.

  Posted February 5, 2015 9:08 PM

• by yshish

  And they're very faint but you can see them along the coast..

  Posted February 5, 2015 10:53 PM

• by jebyrnes scientist

  Yep, some real kelp and Landsat glitch. It's actually like we designed an art piece!

  Posted February 6, 2015 2:53 AM

• by Artman40

  #Dailyzoo?

  Posted February 6, 2015 5:43 AM