seafloor mapping
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An ROV Is Making Incredibly Detailed Maps of the Seafloor Off California
About 32 kilometres off the Californian coast, the 4,7630-kilogram remote submersible Doc Ricketts swept its strobe lights and sonar pulses across the seafloor like a transient silent disco. The vehicle wasn’t just putting on a show for the deep-sea denizens of the Pacific. It was mapping the terrain and ecology of a unique geological formation…
