{"id":9758,"date":"2019-09-02T17:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2019-09-02T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:18:01","slug":"samudrayaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/samudrayaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Samudrayaan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The &#8216;Samudrayaan&#8217; is a part of the Ministry of\nEarth Sciences&#8217; pilot project for deep ocean mining for rare minerals.<\/li><li>The project proposes to send a submersible\nvehicle with three persons to a depth of about 6000 metres to carry out deep\nunderwater studies<\/li><li>The project is being undertaken by National\nInstitute of Ocean Technology.<\/li><li>Recently, the Indian government has given\napproval to the Deep Ocean Mission (DOM). The mission proposes to explore Deep\nOcean similar to space exploration started by ISRO.<\/li><li>Key areas of the mission are: a) Deep-sea\nmining: exploitation of polymetallic nodules(PMN), b) Ocean climate change\nadvisory services, c) Underwater vehicles, d) Underwater robotics related\ntechnologies<\/li><li>Two key projects have been planned under the\nMission: a) Desalination plant powered by tidal energy, b) Submersible vehicle\nequipped to explore depths of at least 6,000 metres.<\/li><li>The mission will be led by the Union Earth\nSciences Ministry. It will be a five-year mission and is expected to commence\nfrom October 31, 2019.<\/li><li>India has been allocated a site of 75,000 sq km\nin the Central Indian Ocean Basin by the International Sea Bed Authority for\nexploration of polymetallic nodules from seabed.<\/li><li>The estimated resource of polymetallic nodules\nis about 380 million tonnes, containing 4.7 million tonnes of nickel, 4.29\nmillion tonnes of copper and 0.55 million tonnes of cobalt and 92.59 million\ntonnes of manganese.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Samudrayaan&#8217; is a part of the Ministry of Earth Sciences&#8217; pilot project for deep ocean mining for rare minerals. The project proposes to send a submersible vehicle with three persons to a depth of about 6000 metres to carry out deep underwater studies The project is being undertaken by National Institute of Ocean Technology.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/samudrayaan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samudrayaan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2640],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-samudrayaan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}