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View a slide show of some of the Vailulu’u marine life collected by scientist diving in the Pisces V submersible.

Oblique view of the bathymetry of a large massif on western side of survey. The massif is 40-km long, 16-km wide and stands ~1200 m higher than the 3250-m surrounding seafloor. The massif shows signs of large-scale landslides on its upper surface. The image has vertical exaggeration of 3x looking south. Water depth range in image -1930m to -3300m. Image Credit: UNH/NOAA

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