Autonomous vehicle's search in Mariana Trench helps advance understanding of deep sea and its critical minerals

A caller autonomous underwater conveyance (AUV) imaged a antecedently unexplored information of the seafloor successful ultra-deep waters adjacent the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this exertion for the archetypal clip was portion of a ngo led by the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), based astatine the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, with enactment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).