industryterm:search area

Investigators urge extending search for missing Malaysian flight | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh-idUSKBN14901C

Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 have recommended extending the search by 25,000 sq km (9,650 sq miles), to an area further north in the Indian Ocean, after conceding for the first time they were probably looking in the wrong place.

#CometWatch 24 July
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/07/29/cometwatch-24-july-2

This stunning view along the boundary between Hatmehit and Wosret was captured by #Rosetta’s #navcam on 24 July from a distance of 9.7 km to the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The field of view includes the CONSERT search ellipse that has guided the search for #rosetta’s lander Philae since it landed unexpectedly in the yet-to-be identified location known as Abydos (check this animation for a reminder of the search area). The image also captures beautiful details of the cross-cutting fracture patterns that prevail in many locations all over the comet; they are particularly prominent towards the left of this scene. Numerous boulders cling to the surface, and in some places – notably in the lower left quadrant of the image – cast impressively long shadows across the comet’s (...)

##CometLanding

Possible float routes for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
▻http://flowingdata.com/2015/08/06/possible-float-routes-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-370

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down a year ago, and with recently found debris that is possibly from the flight, researchers have a few more bits of data to work from. The New York Times picked up on coverage of what’s going on, and in the latest, they provide an animated map that shows possible routes the debris could have taken. This is based on computer models from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and suggests a search area.

… et en version animée sur le site du NY Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/17/world/asia/search-for-flight-370.html

▻http://int.nyt.com.s3.amazonaws.com/data/videotape/finished/2015/08/1438788283/forwards-4-1300.mp4

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With huge search area mapped, MH370 hunt resuming - Yahoo News
▻http://news.yahoo.com/huge-search-area-mapped-mh370-hunt-resuming-055544313.html

After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world’s most perplexing aviation mysteries.
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The search has been on hold for months so crews could map the seabed in the search zone, about 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) west of Australia. The 60,000-square kilometer (23,000-square mile) search area lies along what is known as the “seventh arc” — a stretch of ocean where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, based largely on an analysis of transmissions between the plane and a satellite.
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That area was largely unknown to scientists before the mapping process began in May. Two ships have been surveying the seabed using on-board multibeam sonar devices, similar to a fish-finder. The equipment sends out a series of signals that determine the shape and hardness of the terrain below, allowing officials to create three-dimensional maps of the seabed.

Those maps are considered crucial to the search effort because the seafloor is riddled with deep crevasses, mountains and volcanoes, which could prove disastrous to the pricey, delicate search equipment that will be towed just 100 meters (330 feet) above the seabed. Two of the search ships will be using underwater search vessels worth around $1.5 million each.

Optimisme prudent

“We’re cautiously optimistic; cautious because of all the technical and other challenges we’ve got, but optimistic because we’re confident in the analysis,” said Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the agency leading the search. “But it’s just a very big area that we’re looking at.”

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Needle in a Landfill
▻http://www.onearth.org/articles/2014/04/airplane-goes-missing-over-ocean-world-finds-lots-of-its-lost-trash

For over three weeks, the world has been searching for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, with no physical sign of the plane or its 239 passengers anywhere. But what search parties have found, over and over again, is a lot of trash floating in some very remote corners of the ocean.

Almost immediately after the plane went missing on March 8, authorities spotted two unrelated oil slicks in the South China Sea, and since then, flotsam has repeatedly led investigators astray. Over the weekend, the search area, now in the Indian Ocean, shifted 700 miles in order to inspect a new patch of debris, but that turned out to be discarded fishing gear. So while the world waits for some trace of the lost jetliner, another disheartening subplot has been emerging from the narrative—our oceans are full of all kinds of crap.

Big crap. Little crap. Microscopic crap.

You’ve no doubt heard of the Great Pacific garbage patch, that whirling, swirling carpet of refuse often described as being the size of Texas. Well, guess what? The Indian Ocean has one of those bad boys, too. In fact, there are five major marine collections of plastic and debris—one for every one of the five ocean’s main gyres. And thanks to the anti-ocean pollution organization, 5 Gyres, you can watch how the trash patches have grown with time:

▻http://vimeo.com/8350606