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Water Column Backscatter at Hydrothermal Vent
A water column backscatter image of a hydrothermal plume rising from a vent on the Canadian-American Seamount hydrothermal vent field on Axial Seamount. Similar data were collected during the Acoustic Mapping and Characterization of Seafloor Hydrothermal Discharge With Multibeam Echosounders on Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles project team’s exploration of the ASHES (Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Emission Study) vent field during the same expedition.