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Barnacles Help Reconstruct Drift Path of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

by Susan Trumbore 28 August 202329 August 2023

Careful calibration of isotopes in a barnacle shell growing on ocean debris – in this case an airplane part – informs a new forensic method to identify its most probable drift path.

The M/V Fugro Equator searches the seafloor for MH370
Posted inNews

Search for MH370 Revealed Ocean Crust Waves

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 June 202026 September 2023

Efforts to recover the missing airplane produced high-resolution bathymetry of the southern Indian Ocean that raises new ideas about how ocean crust forms.

Strips and bands of color off the western coast of Australia indicate the MH370 search area.
Posted inNews

Seafloor Data from Lost Airliner Search Are Publicly Released

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 21 July 201726 September 2023

Detailed maps of the bottom of the Indian Ocean reveal deep canyons and landslides but no wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in 2014.

The search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 produced this detailed view of the landscape deep in the Indian Ocean.
Posted inScience Updates

Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search

by K. Picard, B. Brooke and M. F. Coffin 6 March 201726 September 2023

A rich trove of marine geophysical data acquired in the search for missing flight MH370 is yielding knowledge of ocean floor processes at a level of detail rare in the deep ocean.

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