Volvo Ocean Race sailors deploy robotic floats for climate science research — mashable.com

The Southern Ocean plays a major role in regulating Earth's climate, since it is a major absorber, or "sink" of carbon emissions and heat from the atmosphere. In addition, powerful ocean currents that help transport heat worldwide are powered in part by processes that take place in this area, which surrounds Antarctica. Yet despite its outsized importance in the climate system, we may know more about the surface of Mars than we do about this part of our home planet.

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