2022.10.04

Turning the Tide

Discoveries keep revising our long-held views of life

THE ORPHEUS from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is designed to maneuver autonomously and in swarms of vehicles at the deepest depths and to land to collect samples on the fly. Source: Evan Kovacs/© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

THE ORPHEUS from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is designed to maneuver autonomously and in swarms of vehicles at the deepest depths and to land to collect samples on the fly. Source: Evan Kovacs/© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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