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NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole

05-14-2007 · EurekAlert!

A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico's El Zacatón sinkhole with a robotic submarine the week of May 14.

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