Second Chinese Arctic expedition returns
( 2003-09-26 20:39) (Xinhua)
Scientific
expedition ship Xuelong, or Snow-Dragon, arrived in Shanghai Friday
morning, September 26, 2003. After 74 days and 13,985 nautical miles, the
expedition team returned home with valuable research on the North Pole.
[newsphoto.com.cn] | China's second Arctic
expedition has successfully returned from the Arctic region and arrived in
Shanghai Friday morning.
The successful return marks China's more advanced technology in arctic
expedition, said Chen Lianzeng, deputy director of National Bureau of
Oceanography at the welcome reception.
Yuan Shaohong,
captain of the research vessel Xuelong that carried China's second
scientific expedition to the North Pole, embraces his wife in Shanghai on
Friday.[newsphoto.com.cn] | The team left Shanghai
on July 10 aboard the scientific ship Xuelong, or Snow-Dragon, for the Arctic,
where they sailed 13,985 nautical miles and conduct oceanic and meteorological
research.
They have achieved progress in probing reactions of the Arctic region to
global climatic changes and its impact in return on those changes, and analyzing
Arctic influences on weather in the Chinese territory, said scientists.
The team set up China's northernmost observing station where they conducted a
two-week research stretching 250 km. Xuelong made China's breakthrough by
successfully navigating into the zone within 80 degrees northern
latitude.
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