Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

November 6, 2018

National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs
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This roughly one-minute video of the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory (MOO), and life at the bottom of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, was created to celebrate MOO's first "birthday" this month.

MOO was installed by scientific divers and other personnel in late 2017, 75 feet below the frozen surface of McMurdo Sound in the southwestern Ross Sea.

The project, hosted at the University of Oregon, Eugene, is designed to provide researchers with real-time, high-quality scientific data and images of conditions under the solid sea ice.

MOO consists of a live-streaming high-definitiion video camera that can point and zoom in all directions, a high-definition underwater microphone, and sensors that measure basic conditions, including temperature, salinity and tides.

Read more about MOO here: https://moo-antarctica.net