It is easy to adapt Minerva to almost whatever mission to be accomplished. The construction of the vehicle and the fiber optic umbilical cable provides many opportunities to equip her with a variety of instruments. Here are some examples:
Minerva showing placement of transponder and the Doppler Velocity Log (ADCP)
Photo: Johanna Järnegren
Minerva equipped with a Niskin water-sampler that is triggered from the surface, and a landing net with collected corals (Lophelia pertusa).
Photo: Sven Neulinger
Here Minerva is equipped with HIM-lighs (400 W each) and a High Dynamic Range camera, suitable for making photomosaics.
Photo: Johanna Järnegren
Minerva equipped witha Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU), MRU 6, High resolution Scanning Sonar and CTD with oxygen and turbidity probes.
Photo: Johanna Järnegren
Here Minerva is equipped for doing acoustical surveys and photomosaics on vertical walls, using an ADCP, High Resolution Scanning Sonar and the High Dynamic Range camera.
Photo: Martin Ludvigsen
Minerva equipped with a GeoSwath bathymetry sonar and the Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU) MRU 6, after a dive for mapping of a plane wreck.
Photo: Tom Hiller
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Operator:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
