News tagged with underwater exploration


Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations. But, last summer's pivotal underwater exploration ...





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Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...


Swedish Agency Develops Underwater Wireless Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 09, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0

The Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI has developed an underwater wireless technology that has been tested for accurately predicting weather conditions, sea pollution and earthquakes. The new technology is a vast improvement ...


Robot plumbs Wisconsin lake on way to Antarctica, jovian moon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A University of Illinois at Chicago scientist will lead a team testing a robotic probe in a polar-style, under-ice exploration that may have out-of-this world applications. But the team will keep to a venue that's much closer ...


NASA Undersea Mission Begins

NASA Undersea Mission Begins

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 07, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer began a 10-day NASA mission in the ocean depths off the Florida coast Aug. 6. They will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of long-duration ...


Underwater volcano found off Sicily

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 25, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Italian scientists say a large volcano lurks just underneath the surface of the Mediterranean south of Sicily.


Discoveries in the Deep

Discoveries in the Deep

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds.


NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

[B]Carnegie Mellon researchers use sonar to map, demystify El Zacatón[/B] A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, fin ...


NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 25, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15. They will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of medical objectives for ...


People surround the battery-powered underwater glider "Scarlet Knight" after its arrival at the port of Baiona

Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures.


Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans

Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In one of the more dramatic moments of an underwater archaeological survey co-led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio along Florida's Gulf Coast this summer, Andy Hemmings stood on an inundated ...



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