The Video Plankton Recorder captured this sharply detailed color image of a jellyfish called Aeginura grimaldi, a species WHOI biologist Cabell Davis calls fairly rare. The VPR is an underwater camera system towed behind vessels that can photograph microscopic plankton. It documents and samples fragile species without damaging them. (Image courtesy of Klas Moller, Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany)

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The Video Plankton Recorder captured this sharply detailed color image of a jellyfish called Aeginura grimaldi, a species WHOI biologist Cabell Davis calls fairly rare. The VPR is an underwater camera system towed behind vessels that can photograph microscopic plankton. It documents and samples fragile species without damaging them. (Image courtesy of Klas Moller, Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany)