NAGASAKI – Japanese and foreign researchers held an opening ceremony Thursday to begin the world’s first volcano-drilling experiment by boring into a vent on Mount Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture for magma samples.
The project by researchers from the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University and foreign research institutes is being paid for with science and technology promotion funds from the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.
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