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Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.

Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.
Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.
Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.
Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.
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Catanach, Rodney
Full port side view of DSV Alvin underwater.
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01/01/1990
Alvin side under.jpg
Date is approximate.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 1, Pg. 1:
A Sea Change in Ocean Science.
(An issue introduction by WHOI Director Bob Gagosian)
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 41, No. 2, Pg. 11:
In the late 1970s, two unique research vehicles, WHOI’s Alvin (shown here) and NASA’s Voyager I, made separate but complementary discoveries in inner and outer space. By discovering thriving biological communities near seafloor volcanic vents, Alvin helped show that water plus volcanism can support life without sunlight. Voyager I discovered active volcanism on Jupiter’s moon Io, showing that volcanism was more common in the solar system than previously believed. These two ideas have only recently combined to guide scientists’ search for life on other planetary bodies.
Photo by Rod Catanach
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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