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MH370: Malaysia releases satellite analysis
"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
... "Keith Willshaw" wrote in message This is the free-swimming robot submarine that found AF 447 in the the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=38144 http://boingboing.net/2011/05/06/air...447-how-s.html "On April 3, researchers spotted the plane's debris field, 13,000 feet down, smack in the middle of a massive underwater mountain range." jsw To give you an idea of the state of the art, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_glider "In November 2012, a Liquid Robotics Wave Glider autonomous underwater glider set a Guinness World Record for "longest distance traveled on the Earth's surface by a robot" by travelling over 14,000 kilometres (9,000 mi) on an autonomous journey of just over one year duration." "In August 2010, a Deep Glider variant of the Seaglider achieved a repeated 6000-meter operating depth." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberda...rwater_gliders "... and remain on station for up to six months." jsw |
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