Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 11:30
in Earth & Climate
Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
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