Images

This photograph is of the seafloor off the California coast and shows rock outcrop, encrusting sponge, cup corals, red sea star and a female kelp greenling. This photograph supports the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), which was initiated in 2007 by the California Ocean Protection Council.

Boulders and biota off San Gregorio, California, in water approximately 30 meters (100 feet) deep. Organisms include bat stars, small sea anemones, strawberry anemone, cup corals, and frilly sea cucumbers.

Two bull elk fighting in a lake.

Two bull elk fighting in a lake.

Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) Jim Crowley (USGS), Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.

Jim Crowley (USGS) and Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) studying acid lakes as mars analogs.

Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona. Studying Earth as a Mars analog.

Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.

Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.

Simon Hook (JPL), Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.

Tidewater goby collected from Rodeo Lagoon in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA.

Jim Crowley (USGS) measuring pH in the acid lake Chandler in Australia.

Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.

Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia. Banded Iron Formation Hamersley Basin.

Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.

Digital still photograph from Massachusetts Bay near Cohasset, MA, showing seastars (Asterias sp.), blood stars (Henricia sanguinolenta), blood drop tunicates (Dendrodoa carnea), mussels, and barnacles on cobbles and boulders covered with bubblegum algae and red filamentous algae.  Water depth at this location is approximately 19.6 meters.

This photograph is of the seafloor off the Massachusetts coast and shows sea stars, blood stars, blood drop tunicates, mussels and barnacles on cobbles and boulders covered with bubblegum algae and red filamentous algae.

This photograph is of the seafloor off the Massachusetts coast and shows a lobster as well as boulders and sediment covered in seaweed, bubblegum algae and red filamentous algae.

3.5 billion years old stromatolites. Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.

Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.

Production level in the Ray porphyry copper mine, AZ.