Tiny particles (white dots) within a seawater-filled chamber show the rate at which fluid flows around this flake of marine snow as it falls. The flake is surrounded by an invisible sticky mucus that slows the fluid movement. The small particles move more slowly in a comet tail–shaped region in the flake’s wake. The chamber is designed to keep the sinking snowflake in view of the camera.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/comet-tails-mucus-marine-snow
Video: Rahul Chajwa and Manu Prakash/PrakashLab/Stanford University
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