Tiny comets under the sea

B B Cael¹, Lionel Guidi^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
² Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.
³ Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara GOSEE, Paris, France.

Comment

B B Cael et al. Science. 2024.

. 2024 Oct 11;386(6718):149-150.

doi: 10.1126/science.ads5642. Epub 2024 Oct 10.

B B Cael¹, Lionel Guidi^{2

3}

¹ National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
² Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.
³ Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara GOSEE, Paris, France.

Abstract

A mucus drag on sinking marine snow may have big biogeochemical implications.

Hidden comet tails of marine snow impede ocean-based carbon sequestration.
Chajwa R, Flaum E, Bidle KD, Van Mooy B, Prakash M. Chajwa R, et al. Science. 2024 Oct 11;386(6718):eadl5767. doi: 10.1126/science.adl5767. Epub 2024 Oct 11. Science. 2024. PMID: 39388567