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Deep Sea Mining – National Science Award
August 2 , 2022
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- The Minister of State of Science & Technology Jitendra Singh presented a national science award to Indian scientists who conducted the world’s first locomotive trials of a deep-sea mining system in the central Indian ocean.
- He also inaugurated a first-of-its-kind and state-of-art fully automated buoy-based coastal observation and water quality now casting system for the Indian Ocean.
- It was developed by Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services.
- It is the part of India’s Deep Ocean Mission.
- The part of the ocean that lies below a depth of 200 meters is defined as the deep sea.
- The process of extracting minerals from this area is known as deep-sea mining.
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