The oceanographic MoMARSAT, conducted jointly by Ifremer and IPGP, CNRS / INSU, will run from 1 to 16 October 2010 on the Mid-Atlantic off the Azores. On board the research vessel the mission objective is to deploy a network of instruments for measuring self, connected to the bottom, that will continuously observe the process of active hydrothermal fields Lucky Strike . It is an unprecedented pilot offshore in context: data acquired at 1700 m depth will be transmitted to a surface buoy which transmit satellite research centers on the ground, that is to say several thousand kilometers. Read More
