DepthX Goes Where No Bot Has Gone Before

DEPTHX with sampling payload.
Here, DEPTHX dives with its sampling payload (coring device, camera and water inlet) extended.Photo: Carnegie Mellon University
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Engineers
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DEPTHX's busy schedule.
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DEPTHX enters the water initially with tethers.
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Engineers wait as DEPTHX does its work.
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Scientists retrieve DEPTHX's samples.
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Scientists hoist DEPTHX back onshore.
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