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Remotely operated vehicle collects seafloor rock samples

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Two metal mechanical arms each hold a piece of rock from the seafloor with the silty ocean bottom below it.
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Two hands are better than one! The versatile, ambidextrous ROV (remotely operated vehicle) Jason collects two mineral samples from the seafloor at Escanaba Trough. Jason's sample collection tubes are visible off to the left.

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