Chronicle
Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory are developing “automated electric vessels to map the ocean floor and improve search and rescue missions,” reports Ramen Cromwell for Chronicle. "Ship-based echo sounders cover wide areas but with poor resolution, while undersea vehicles have resolution but search too slowly," says Andrew March, an assistant group leader in MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group. "It's called a moonshot. We know less about Earth’s seabed than the moon's surface."