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Silence settled over the cabin as Tom reached out to switch on the antisonar circuits. At that same instant a red light flashed on the control panel. "The Damonscope!" Tom cried out. "We may be over the Jupiter prober!" Cutting off the steering jets, Tom gave a brief flick on the reverse jets to halt the craft.
Food, space-plant pills, extra clothing, tools, including a midget atomic earth blaster, grappling hooks nothing was overlooked. "I'd better take along a Damonscope too," Tom reflected. "Judging by those Navy reports, ordinary Geiger counters haven't revealed anything." Tom's Damonscope, one of his early inventions, was a photographic device which worked on fluorescent principles.
Tom had plotted a concentric search pattern, focused on the probable position worked out by the task-force computers. After checking his fix on the automatic navigator, Tom switched on the Damonscope and steered the Sea Hound on a gradually circling course. The Damonscope was mounted in a blister on the hull, its camera lens pointing toward the ocean floor.
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