Robot-assisted Deepwater Gliders Help Reveal Ocean's Hidden Zones

The air temperature on this mid-December morning was 31 degrees Fahrenheit, but felt more like 40. Winds were blowing lightly at about 10 miles per hour. In other words, it seemed like a perfect day for launching RU25, a shiny, yellow, missile-shaped autonomous underwater glider, into the Southern Ocean. So a team of Rutgers University researchers checked out two Zodiacs from Palmer Station, and set off to deploy RU25 into the undersurface world.

Click here to continue reading the blog, on OnEarth magazine's website. (It's in two parts. Be sure to read to the epilogue, which reveals that the Rutgers University team successfully launched the RU25 glider after the blog post had originally gone to press.)

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