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01.01.1970 //Planetary robot dived on the bottom of the deepest well.
The deep water robot DEPTHX, created by the American company Stone Aerospace in the collaboration with the number of the universities OF THE USA, went down on the bottom the deep water robot DEPTHX, created by the American company Stone Aerospace in the collaboration with the number of the universities OF THE USA, Machine in the world for the first time composed the map of this surprising formation. In course of one of the sinkings, executed last week, autonomous robot descended to 270 it was meter, in the automatic regime after composing the complete three-dimensional map of the perpendicular walls of this failure. In this case the sensors showed that the bottom of well (by the way, its diameter on the surface it is about 100 it is meter) has noticeable inclination. In its smallest part it separates from surface of 276 it is meter (in the southeastern angle). But in deepest - 319 it is meter. In this case near this northwestern section of the bottom the well makes the bend, in which thus far did not penetrate the view of the sonars of robot. Data only indicate the possible passage approximately 16-20 it is meter into the height and 40-50 it is meter into the width. This can be both the simple blind alcove and "door" into the system of deeper caves. On the possibility of further study of this mysterious angle nothing cannot be thus far said. Since the cliff hangs above this place, scientists engineers, who conduct expedition to Zakaton, doubt - it does be worthwhile to conduct there robot, fearing it to lose (machine indeed it works without the leash, under control of its own "brain"). However, it is known that sinkings of uncommon apparatus into Zakaton will be continued. Interesting that in 1994 of two scuba divers - Shek Eksli (Sheck Exley) and By dzhim Bowden (Jim Bowden) - went down into Zakaton at the depth of 281,94 meters, but, unfortunately, pod'em of friends it upward ended tragically - Shek perished in several meters from the surface. Now it is explained, that Eksli and Bowden entirely a little did not reach the inclined bottom Of zakatona, in searches for which they dived. It is worthwhile to also add that the walls of this natural well are raised to 16,5 it is meter above the water level, which gives the overall height of failure into 335,5 meters. By the way, the splendid photographs of this beautiful place as reports about the expedition, you can find in the Internet. The importance of the record sinking of the "deep water researcher of phreatic thermal sources" (so it is deciphered DEPTHX) consists not so much in the first detailed study Of zakatona, as in checking of the robot itself, which possesses the system of the artificial intellect, which helps to it to be moved under water, to compose actual chart area, to take samples of rocks, to select the route of motion and to return to the people upward. Indeed DEPTHX, and the underwater apparatus, which already proceeds to it with change, are the prototypes of the machines, which can investigate the under-ice oceans of the satellites of the gas giants.