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A drone takes off for the erupting Penacho volcano.

A drone takes off for the erupting Penacho volcano.

Scientists protected

Scientists protected

themselves from the noxious gases by donning military-grade gas masks.

A UNM interdisciplinary research

A UNM interdisciplinary research

team was awarded a $1.5 million NSF grant to develop novel, bio-inspired software and drones to measure and sample volcanic gases.

The research team

The research team

The research team directed UNM-programmed autonomous drones into the gas plumes to sample uncontaminated gases from an erupting volcano for later carbon isotope analyses.

UNM’s VolCAN team makes history in Canary Islands

Researchers use drones to sample gases from active La Palma volcano

By Kim Delker January 05, 2022

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