HMS Challenger (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

HMS Challenger

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The HMS Challenger, a three-masted wooden sailing ship originally designed as a British warship, was used for the first modern scientific expedition to explore the world's ocean and seafloor. Gebbie and Huybers compared the cooling trend found in the model to ocean temperature measurements taken by scientists aboard the HMS Challenger in the 1870s and modern observations from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment of the 1990s.

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Painting of the HMS Challenger by William Frederick Mitchell originally published for the Royal Navy.

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