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See. in the indian ocean they are doing pre-planned missions because the vehicle doesnt come back for a long period of time. they have to use their best estimate to generate this. >> the side scan sonar looks weird. explain how this works. >> this is side scan sonar imamry. it travels through the water, hits the sea floor and continues on. that generates an image of whats on the sea floor. >> anderson, its interesting because the closer they get the better the image but the higher up the more th...

That generates an image of the sea floor. >> its interesting. the closer down they get the better the image. but the higher up the more they can see what is under them. >> are they getting realtime images or just data they have to look at later? and also the fact that there is silt down there could that make it harder to identify? >> the first one i think definitely thats a james question. >> they are not getting realtime images. we are able to do that here on the boat. but they put that vehicle...