XOcean aboard RV Celtic Explorer (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

XOcean aboard RV Celtic Explorer

Caption

A sea surface drone supplied by XOcean. Researchers will remotely pilot the drone through ice fields to the glacier’s towering face where it will conduct high-resolution scans of the seafloor and sediment walls, called moraines.

Credit

Marcy Davis/University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

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