Luis Bermudez, Bob Arko, John Graybeal, Michael Hughes, Roy Lowry, Rob Raskin
John Graybeal, graybeal@mbari.org, 831-775-1956, MMI
with occupants operating the functions of the platform
Is a ship specialized to carry out scientific research.
The region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere.. 1,280 km and beyond
Land and Water Body Floor based platforms
Mooring. Instrument cluster is at or near the buoy.
Also called air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is a vehicle or craft that can be supported by a cushion of air ejected downwards against a surface close below it, and can in principle travel over any relatively smooth surface, such as gently sloping land, water, or marshland, while having no substantial contact with it.
Not tethered. Instrument cluster is understood to be at or near the node.
An aircraft powered by a conventional propeller and supported in flight by a freewheeling, horizontal rotor that provides lift.
Constraint to move only in the orbital trajectory.
co-managed collection of observing systems
It extends to about 30 miles above the earth. Ozone in this layer stops many of the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching the earth. This layer contains about 24% of the total mass of the atmosphere
Constraint to move only in the vertical plane.
A vehicle designed to float on and move across (or through) water
Vehicle that requieres remote contol to manuever
able to move spontaneously - implies propulsion
A light engineless aircraft designed to glide after being towed aloft
refers to an artificial satellite, which is a man-made object that orbits the Earth
platform that drifts freely, and goes up and down in the water column to make measurements (in either or both directions)
machine capable of atmospheric flight.
part of the earth ground surface submerged under standing water (lake, sea, or ocean)
An aircraft that derives its lift from blades that rotate about an approximately vertical central axis.
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has sufficient size to carry its own boats, such as lifeboats, dinghies, or runabouts
move this under platform to test automatic classification
profiling buoy produced for the ARGO program, accordingly to its specifications; configured to sink at a controlled rate to 2,000 metres below the surface while measuring sea temperatures and salinity. Then after typically 10 days it returns to the surface and transmits its data via satellite before sinking again.
Ship not specialized for scientific research.
a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships.
the outermost level of the land or Ocean
the part of the earth not covered by standing water (lake, sea, or ocean)
Constraint to move only in the horizontal plane.
he temperature can drop to -173 degrees Fahrenheit. This is where we see "falling stars," meteors that fall to the earth and burn up in the atmosphere