File:Potential Mechanism for Dazzling Blue Flashes of Light in Oceans Identified (6300345394).jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(1,907 × 1,200 pixels, file size: 459 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description

Proposed bioluminescence mechanism: When a dinoflagellate is mechanically agitated, an electrical impulse travels around its vacuole membrane. This impulse opens up proton channels that allow protons to flow from the vacuole into the scintillons, where they activate light-emitting luciferase proteins. The result: A flash of light. Read more in this news release.

Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation

Visit NSF’s Multimedia Gallery, at www.nsf.gov/news/mmg, for more images, and for video.
Date
Source Potential Mechanism for Dazzling Blue Flashes of Light in Oceans Identified
Author National Science Foundation

Licensing

Public domain This image is a work of a National Science Foundation employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by National Science Foundation at https://flickr.com/photos/37157086@N02/6300345394. It was reviewed on 19 January 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the United States Government Work.

19 January 2018

This media file is uncategorized.
Please help improve this media file by adding it to one or more categories, so it may be associated with related media files (how?), and so that it can be more easily found.
Please notify the uploader with
{{subst:Please link images|File:Potential Mechanism for Dazzling Blue Flashes of Light in Oceans Identified (6300345394).jpg}} ~~~~

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:09, 19 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 14:09, 19 January 20181,907 × 1,200 (459 KB)Artix Kreiger 2Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Potential_Mechanism_for_Dazzling_Blue_Flashes_of_Light_in_Oceans_Identified_(6300345394).jpg"