Mystery Ocean Glow Confirmed in Satellite Photos - Yahoo! News: "Mariners have long told of rare nighttime events in which the ocean glows intensely as far as the eye can see in all directions.
Fictionally, such a 'milky sea' is encountered by the Nautilus in Jules Verne classic '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
Scientists don't have a good handle what's going on. But satellite sensors have now provided the first pictures of a milky sea and given new hope to learning more about the elusive events.
The newly released images show a vast region of the Indian Ocean, about the size of Connecticut, glowing three nights in a row. The luminescence was also spotted from a ship in the area.
'The circumstances under which milky seas form is almost entirely unknown,' says Steven Miller, a Naval Research Laboratory scientists who led the space-based discovery. 'Even the source for the light emission is under debate.'"
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