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Date: 2004/10/02

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UN_Vacuum_Canister_SAFOD-MH-ST1_1.jpg This is a vacuum canister that Martin Stute (Columbia Univ.) uses to process sub-core samples. Once all the air has been evacuated from the canister, the noble gasses trapped within the matrix of the sample escape into the canister.
UN_Germantv_SAFOD-MH-ST1_1.jpg Today a television crew from the Second German Television (ZDF) station were at the drill site to film the site and interview scientists about SAFOD.
UN_Germantv_SAFOD-MH-ST1_2.jpg The television crew from the Second German Television (ZDF) station with Lothar Wohlgemuth, GFZ (Lothar is on the left).
UN_Core_SAFOD-MH-ST1_3.jpg Early this morning the second run of coring was completed. This is a view of the very bottom of the recovered core.
UN_Core_SAFOD-MH-ST1_4.jpg This picture shows the core being sectioned into 3 foot samples.
UN_Core_SAFOD-MH-ST1_5.jpg The core recovered early this morning was composed mainly of the dark, greenish gray rock you can see in this picture.