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July 27, 2017

Ken Markoff of the University of California, Santa Cruz monitors the WISSARD borehole in 2013.

Ken Markoff of the University of California, Santa Cruz monitors the borehole for the WISSARD drilling project in this 2013 photograph.

Credit: Reed Scherer, NSF


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