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A Flapjack Octopus swims in the waters above Axial Seamount, ~300 miles offshore. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS DIve R1466, V11.

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Jordan, an ASU student that participated on the Enlighten'10 expedition, says : "Nothing like hanging out in the lab at 10:30 on a Wednesday night, working on a presentation about pyroptosis, watching the Visions '11 video feed, and munching on my Enlighten '10 Scientist Domo Styrofoam cup! Incredible stuff, guys!"

Pam, a VISIONS'11 live stream viewer, watches ROPOS dive 1468 at ASHES hydrothermal vent field. 

A lava whorl in the surface of a sheet flow within the caldera of Axial Seamount. 

VISIONS'11 live stream viewer Dan Magden (owner of 5 PinProAudio) watches a dive at ASHES hydrothermal vent field during his ferry commute. 

Members of the RU COOL room at Rutgers Univeristy watch the live stream from the VISIONS'11 expedition. (photo courtesy of RU) 

Thick flow wrapped by the April eruption on the eastern wall of the caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

Glass- covered lobate flow near edge of one of the eruptive sites.

This bathymetric map of ASHES Hydrothermal Field shows the location of many of the black smoker chimneys that dot this site. The chimney Inferno rises 4 m (~ 12 feet) above the surrounding seafloor and is ~ 11 meters from its neighbor called Mushroom. Colleagues from NOAA-PMEL have worked at this site for two decades, monitoring changes in the chimneys and fluid chemistry.

Axial Volcano hosts numerous hydrothermal fields and sites of diffuse flow that support dense animal and microbial communities. Credit: D. Kelley, University of Washington.

This is the cage ROPOS uses to carry instruments to and from the seafloor.

These samples were collected from a lava flow with an age of about 3 months.

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ROPOS being deployed off the port side of the R/V Thompson.

The ROV ROPOS gently flew into a small collapse basin marked by pillars, arches and isolated columns of basalt. These areas form as lava drains out from deep lava pools. The surface of the lava lake or channel very rapidly cools as it interacts with near freezing seawater. As the lava drains out, the roof is not strong enough to maintain its weight, and collapses into a pile of talus. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

A small pillar marked by bathtub rings is encased by broken slabs of the sheet flow that erupted in April 2011.

2011 Bathymetry of Axial Seamount Caldera (first draft), using the R/V Thompson's EM302.  Data were processed by UW undergraduate student Brendan Philip using CARIS HIPS and SIPS software.  

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Black, glassy basalt marks the edge of the new 2011 lava flow on the eastern edge of the caldera. Credity: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

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The ROV ROPOS is controlled from this room.

ROPOS, operated by the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility, is the remotely operated vehicle onboard.