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Bacterial mats photographed by Marcus Gary in Sistema Zacaton. L to R: Antonio Fregoso (Universidad del Noreste) and Marcus Gary with DEPTHX. DEPTHX submerges in La Pilita, near Cenote Zacaton, March 2007.
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Marcus Gary of the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences with DEPTHX. L to R: George Kantor (Carnegie Mellon University), Ernest Franke (Southwest Research Institute) and John Spear (Colorado School of Mines) watch the crane lower DEPTHX into La Pilita near Cenote Zacaton, March 2007. Doctoral student Marcus Gary of the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences SCUBA dives with the DEPTHX probe during initial in-water tests at The University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories wet test facility.
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The DEPTHX team for mission 1 in February 2007 poses for a group photograph with the probe in front of the cenote La Pilita.