A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine #Microbes
▻https://futurism.com/underwater-robots-map-marine-microbes
Here’s a riddle for you: What’s nearly invisible, ubiquitous throughout the world, and produces at least fifty percent of the oxygen in our #atmosphere while removing much of its carbon dioxide?
The answer, you may not have guessed, is #ocean microbes. We increasingly realize how much the world is run by the smallest of organisms. Yet we still don’t know enough about these microbes, nor how they influence large-scale events, like climate change.
Now, a group of scientists is looking to autonomous robots for help.