Testing Cable at ASHES Vent Field
The testing box on ROPOS was used to plug into a 4356 m (14291 ft!) long extension cable (RS03W7) that starts at Primary Node 3B on the northern side of the caldera, runs clear across the caldera, and ends just west of the black smokers in a zone of safety. It will provide power and communication to two short-period seismometers and a three dimensional temperature array deployed in a diffuse flow site at the base of the chimney called Mushroom. VISIONS '13, Leg 3