|
And straightway they went aboard as the wind blew strong; and they drew the sail down, and made it taut to both sheets; then Argo was borne over the sea swiftly, even as a hawk soaring high through the air commits to the breeze its outspread wings and is borne on swiftly, nor swerves in its flight, poising in the clear sky with quiet pinions. - The Argonautica |
Argo of course refers to something other than Jason and the Argonauts'
ship in an epic poem, it is a program to deploy and monitor a global array of
temperature/salinity profiling floats.
.
(Images source: UCSD)
The Argo program complements the
Jason program, hence the name.
More information on Argo
can be found at a number of sites, including:
Argo Home Page
Argo Information Center
The
Design and Implementation of Argo