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	Robot submarine dives to the deepest part of the ocean

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6-3-2009 1:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b128e13-948d-4ea6-b19c-7fe97f439f64/DE379744-5830-4C1A-AAC8-1EE14154C801/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><FONT>A robotic submarine has dived 6.8miles to reach the deepest known part of the ocean, becoming just the third craft in history to explore the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><FONT>The unmanned craft dubbed Nereus after a Greek sea god, withstood pressures 1,000 times that of the Earth's surface during its voyage on May 31st.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><FONT>It spent more than 10 hours hovering 'like a helicopter' near the bottom and was remotely operated by pilots aboard a surface ship via a lightweight fibre-optic tether as thin as a human hair.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/76D7DF16-E93B-49D8-ACB0-D6B049079B89" alt="Robot sub Nereus " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/CD8CFB01-A885-4225-B830-4C01493D28EA" alt="The Nereus arm" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/61371A02-C86E-4CF9-8A29-3FB7992ED38C" alt="Nereus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/EB90DC85-4335-47E7-9957-5278D1515A96" alt="map" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><FONT>In the latest dive Nereus studied the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench which forms the boundary between two tectonic plates. Here the Pacific Plate is subducted beneath the small Mariana Plate. <BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html"><FONT>It is also part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile area where most of the world’s volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes occur.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190486/Robot-submarine-Nereus-dives-deepest-ocean-7-mile-cable-human-hair.html">Nereus will provide a unique tool to gather images and samples from virtually anywhere under the waves.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DE379744-5830-4C1A-AAC8-1EE14154C801/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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