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South China Sea Cold Seep creatures collected by submersible Jiaolong (7)

People's Daily Online)  13:29, July 12, 2013  

The sponge collected by the Jiaolong on the cliff of the South Sea Mountain. Scientists named it seafloor “Saussurea”. On July 5, the Jiaolong manned submersible in course of executing its first trial sea voyage collected a large number of precious seafloor samples including seafloor rocks, sea cucumbers and sponges. This is the 7th dive of first experimental voyage of Jiaolong, as well as its third dive in Dragon Mountain. (Xinhua News Agency/Zhang Xudong) 

Edited and Translated by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online

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(Editor:ZhangQian、Yao Chun)

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