The responsibility of spot signs of global warming across the Atlantic Ocean is given to a robot! Yes, it will monitor not sitting on a satellite or monitoring station. It will voyage underwater across the ocean!
Called Spray, the slow-swimming robot will attempt to swim roughly 2,484 nautical miles across the Atlantic! It is from the southern tip of Greenland to the coast of Spain. Spray is a joint venture between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. It is an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV.
Once its test of endurance is successful, the robot will break its own record for traveling the longest distance ever traveled by an AUV. It is of 1,864 nautical miles. The researchers hope to meet this big goal by 2011.
Via: popsci
