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Oct 2016

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Its name is not apt for what it does but this is called an oil saver. It plugs the top of the drill line so that no fluid would come flowing back out of the borehole. 📸Tessa Peixoto/ IODP #EXP393 #NSFfunded #ScientificOceanDrilling pic.twitter.com/wlAZ2d2uFJ

About 57 minutes ago

Every side is the best side for the core sample.The DMT scanner has rollers that rotate the core as the camera photographs all sides. #EXP393 🎥Tessa Peixoto/ IODP #NSFfunded #science #photography pic.twitter.com/HrZ2fxE9Jk

About 14 hours ago

After 45 years of use the mud pump is still going strong! While drilling we pump mud into the borehole so that cuttings are swept out of the hole so they don’t jam up the bit. #EXP393 📸 Tessa Peixoto/ IODP . . #NSFfunded #engineering #science pic.twitter.com/J5tkWKwSXg

Yesterday

What a beauty! The core liner is mostly full of hard rock and that means our petrologists are happy for more samples to study. #EXP393 📸Tessa Peixoto/ IODP . . #NSFfunded #rocks #ScientificOceanDrilling pic.twitter.com/cWvDTCMyrw

Yesterday

This is a bath you don’t want to hang out in. An acid bath of hydrochloric acid mixed with nitric acid cleans platinum crucibles for the future melting of sediment (more to come). #EXP393 📸Tessa Peixoto/ IODP . . #chemistry #NSFfunded #lab pic.twitter.com/YkLMqtRct6

Yesterday

In a sea far far away, there are nano fossils that look like a galaxy under a microscope and sediment that looks like a planet after being squeezed. #EXP393 📸Tessa Peixoto/ IODP #NSFfunded #earthscience #fossils pic.twitter.com/qOQ4JYEG3e

About 2 days ago

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