What better tribute to the first explorer on the Moon, than to name a research ship after him?
Video pictures relayed live back to the research ship mounting the operation show spindly chimneys up to 10m high.
When the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation's research ship recently needed help getting permission from the Egyptian government to enter the Red Sea, Ludwig made several phone calls, and the mission was under way.
Now back on dry land after broadcasting on the latest work on the research ship James Cook in the Cayman Trough, I'm still picking up messages from people amazed at getting such an extraordinary vision of the reality of the deep sea.
Raymond Highsmith, executive director of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, a Mississipi consortium coordinating the ship's research, says there are a lot of unknowns about the plume, but that he fears that if it is oil it could harm the small sealife that bigger fish and mammals depend on for food.
Consumers and industry critics have praised their new devices, which is the first step in actually fixing the sinking ship that had become Research in Motion.
The ship is here on a scientific research mission, and to document the effects of climate warming on the world's largest island and second largest icecap.
The nine U.S. Navy ships include three guided missile cruisers, three frigates, an amphibious transport ship, two dock landing ships and a research vessel.
Analysts ABI Research predict that 1.95 billion NFC-enabled devices will ship in 2017, the lion's share of which will be smartphones.
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu writes in a research note today that he remains comfortable with his forecast that Apple will ship 6.8 million iPads in the June quarter.
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Martin's discoveries set in motion further research in this area and it was in the spirit of his work that a ship named Weatherbird II set sail for the tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic earlier this month.
It has a research station in the Svalbard archipelago, the northernmost part of Norway, and is building a sister ship to the Xue Long, to go into service in 2014.
The idea was for Iran to ship 1, 200kg of its low-enriched uranium overseas to produce fuel for a research reactor, thus leaving the country for a while with too small a stockpile with which to make a bomb.
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