MINE EYES HAVE SEEN—WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski helped reveal how mines are buried by sand on the seafloor, using a rotary sidescan sonar that continuously monitored the process. This sonar image shows a partially buried mine and the seafloor node that supplies power to the sonar. (Courtesy of Stan Locker and Brian Donahue, University of South Florida, and Mike Richardson, Naval Research Laboratory)[back]
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