Argo Float Deployment (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Argo Float Deployment

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Researchers deploy an instrument called an Argo float to take oceanographic measurements. A new study found that microscopic marine plants thrive beneath the sea ice that covers the Greenland Sea.

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Alicia Navidad/Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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