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Picture of the drilling ship Joides Resolution, operated by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), sailing beneath a rainbow on Expedition 403 to the Fram Strait.

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Following the decommissioning of a key vessel, the future course for continued scientific drilling of the ocean floor is being discussed across Earth sciences fields.
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