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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107015855im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Discovery High School Students Build Antarctic Submersible
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![Photo shows Gretchen Hofmann and Tom Crombia carrying out a "field repair" on the rover.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107015855im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/rover_1_f.jpg) |
After a full season of diving, the rover began to show signs of wear and tear, a typical problem in Antarctica. Gretchen Hofmann (left) and Tim Crombie, a technician in Hofmann's lab, effect a "field repair" with duct tape.
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![Photo shows Gretchen Hofmann using a towel to cut out reflected sunlight.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107015855im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/rover_2_f.jpg) |
Because reflected sunlight from the sea ice makes it all but impossible to see the screen needed to navigate M'RAJE, Gretchen Hofmann improvises a hood out of a towel.
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![Photo of two people lowering a device into a hole in the ice.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107015855im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/deploy_f1.jpg) |
Jessica Dutton (left) reaches out to deploy the underwater, camera-equipped "rover," M'RAJE, into an ice hole.
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