On February 19, the "Xiangyanghong 01" ship of the First Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources successfully arrived at the Qingdao home port wharf, marking the successful completion of the "2020 Indian Ocean Lithosphere Tectonic Evolution Scientific Expedition Voyage" scientific expedition. The voyage lasted 67 days and covered a distance of 11,260 nautical miles.
The voyage was organized and implemented by the First Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, with 54 team members from 7 units, including Ocean One, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology and Northwestern Polytechnical University, participating. Focusing on the major scientific problems of the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere of the 90-degree east longitude of the Indian Ocean and the deep process of the earth, the voyage carried out a comprehensive geological geophysical profile survey in the waters of the eastern Indian Ocean, which is also the first time that China has carried out relevant scientific investigations in the sea.
The voyage overcame the harsh sea conditions such as local cyclones in the equatorial sea, realized comprehensive exploration from the shallow seabed to the deep mantle of the shell, obtained detailed and reliable observation data, and successfully completed all survey tasks. (CCTV reporter Li Jie, Zheng Tianhao)
(Edited by Lu Kaili)