corporation. Glomar Challenger was given its name as a tribute to the accomplishments of the oceanographic survey vessel HMS Challenger. Glomar is a truncation...

Transocean. Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Project Glomar Explorer, a large salvage vessel built by the CIA Glomar response...

Glomar Challenger Basin (77°45′S 180°0′E / 77.750°S 180.000°E / -77.750; 180.000) is a northeast trending undersea basin in the central Ross Sea continental...

GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the...

research ship Glomar Challenger, the Apollo 17 lunar module and the Space Shuttle Challenger were named after this ship. The sixth HMS Challenger (1902) was...

Look up challenger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to: Challenger (character)...

oceanographic and marine geological survey ship Glomar Challenger, and the Space Shuttle Challenger. Aitken, Frédéric; Foulc, Jean-Numa (2019). From...

The Glomar Challenger, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Hardback. 197pp. English. 1982, The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of The Glomar Challenger...

during Leg 13 of the Deep Sea Drilling Program conducted from the Glomar Challenger under the supervision of co-chief scientists William B.F. Ryan and...

operations. The Levingston Shipbuilding Company laid the keel of the Glomar Challenger on October 18, 1967, in Orange, Texas. It sailed down the Sabine River...

Glomar Challenger in drilling and coring operations in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Glomar...

062 m (33,012 feet). The previous record was held by the U.S. vessel Glomar Challenger, which in 1978 drilled to 7,049.5 m (23,128 feet) below sea level...

Government Printing Office. Deep Sea Drilling Project: Leg 10 of the Glomar Challenger GULF OF MEXICO SEAFLOOR 23°52′N 91°35′W / 23.867°N 91.583°W / 23...

Hsü, Kenneth J. The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. Koslow, Tony....

spreading hypothesis and helped to prove the theory of plate tectonics. Glomar Challenger conducted the drilling operations. DSDP was the first of three international...

Drilling Project. Construction of new dedicated scientific drill ship Glomar Challenger began in 1967, becoming operational in August 1968. The oil industry...

Kenneth J. Hsü (1987). The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02406-6. DeMets, Gordon...

062 m (33,011 ft). The previous record was held by the U.S. vessel Glomar Challenger, which in 1978 drilled to 7,049.5 meters (23,130 feet) below sea level...

throughout the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. She is the successor of Glomar Challenger. The ship was first launched in 1978 as Sedco/BP 471, an oil exploration...

and the French diving saucer CYANA, assisted by support ships and Glomar Challenger, explored the great rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, southwest...

Volume XII (covering Leg 12 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger). Vol. 12. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 915...

ships destroyed by U-boats. He was the chief scientist on board the Glomar Challenger. He originated Project Mogul, an early program to detect Soviet nuclear...

that govern plate tectonics. The project used the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger to recover samples of sediment and basaltic crust from various depths...

novelette, "Born of the Sun," and the irony in naming of the later Glomar Challenger which drew deep-sea core samples from the Earth's crust. 1928 in science...

in 1997 and means spreading stopped by end of the Chron 34n. The Glomar Challenger had surveyed part of the area by 1987 but the global magnetism data...

proposal was again blocked by Russia. Oceans portal Beaufort Island Glomar Challenger Basin Hallett Ridge Iceberg B-15 Mawson Bank McMurdo Station Pennell...

in 2018. The Deep Sea Drilling Project began operations as the D/V Glomar Challenger began its first core-drilling operation under the planning of the...

during seafloor spreading. In 1968, the oceanographic research vessel Glomar Challenger was launched and embarked on a 15-year-long program, the Deep Sea...

The area was drilled from February 22 to March 1, 1975 by the ship Glomar Challenger before DSDP 368 was drilled. Its location was at 12°29.2'N and, 20°02...

from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred about 1,560 miles (2,510 km)...