Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
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An illustration of the MARS undersea observatory shows its cabled links. Credit: David Fierstein, MBARI
Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable along the Monterey Bay sea floor that will provide electrical power to scientific instruments, video cameras, and robots 3,000 feet (900 meters) below the ocean surface. The link will also carry data from the instruments back to shore, for use by scientists and engineers from around the world.
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