
thumb|upright=1.35 |right| Sea spray containing [[marine microorganisms can be swept high into the atmosphere and may travel the globe before falling back to earth.]]
thumb|upright=1.35 |right| Sea spray containing [[marine microorganisms can be swept high into the atmosphere and may travel the globe before falling back to earth.]]
Aeroplankton (or aerial plankton) are tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by wind. Most of the living things that make up aeroplankton are very small to microscopic in size, and many can be difficult to identify because of their tiny size. Scientists collect them for study in traps and sweep nets from aircraft, kites or balloons. The study of the dispersion of these particles is called aerobiology.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).