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Arctic Ocean Seafloor Expedition: July 1-Aug. 10, 2007
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No one has ever seen the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It's less well known to science than the surface of the moon. This month, for the first time in history, a scientific team aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden will use unique underwater and under-ice vehicles to search for life on the Gakkel Ridge, a prominent feature of the world's most isolated ocean. With funding from the National Science Foundation--as part of the agency's International Polar Year research and education program--scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution also will document their 40-day cruise in Web journals, with on-line video and photo postings and during a series of live electronic "field trips" at eight science museums around the nation.
To learn more about this unprecedented exploration of the bottom of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, visit http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu/expedition2/index.html.
Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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