7-Million-Dollar XPrize Will Encourage Deep Ocean Exploration
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 12:09
in Earth & Climate
Kai Lehmann/Flickr CC by 2.0 What lies beneath? The new XPrize will award the team that can create an instrument that can be used to monitor the oceans. We've visited Pluto, landed on the moon, and taken pictures of the earth from a million miles away. But there is so much about our planet that we still don't have a good grasp of, including the largest things on Earth: our oceans. A new XPrize, announced today, has the goal of changing that. The new $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPrize will feature two rounds of competition over the next three years. Teams will need to develop a mostly autonomous device capable of navigating the ocean depths. The technologies can be launched from land or sea, and...