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The RAS is recovered after a year at sea taking water samples every eight days.
(Hugo Sindelar)Yuanxin Zhang carefully removes a water sample from the RAS.
(Hugo Sindelar)Sayaka Kumakawa weighs a water sample from the RAS to determine how much water was sampled.
(Hugo Sindelar)All the Styrofoam cups after being sent to a depth of 3,850 meters.
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