The Italian research vessel Laura Bassi has completed the mission that took it to sail for two months in Antarctica to support research activities on the physical and biogeochemical dynamics of some areas of the continent. The vessel, owned by the National Institute of Oceanography, made a single rotation from New Zealand to Antarctica this year, circumnavigating the Ross Sea with 39 people on board as research personnel and a crew of 23 members. For the first time, the mission was shared with the New Zealand Antarctic Project consisting of a team of 12 people. Departing on 25 November from the port of Naples, at the end of December it landed in Lyttelton to embark the personnel who carried out the search mission. After the loading operations were completed, the ship had left on January 6 for the Ross Sea. Subsequently, he reached the Mario Zucchelli base where he unloaded the materials and fuels needed by the Italian Antarctic station and then continued with the scientific activities, which this year were particularly intense.
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