OBS Retrieval, Lau Basin, 2010 (VIDEO)

Washington University in St. Louis

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The team aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana retrieves an ocean-bottom seismograph that has floated to the surface after receiving a command to release the heavy metal plate that holds it to the bottom. The data from these seismographs was used to construct images of the mantle featured in the online Feb. 2 issue of Nature.

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Doug Wiens (one of the scientists who wrote the paper the release is for)

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