Sentences with phrase «above hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor»
He has done similar work aboard ships, rocking and swaying high above hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, when he wasn't in the submersible itself, exploring the steaming depths.
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There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.
As if to seal the case, in early 2017, Cassini discovered silica grains and hydrogen gas in the ice plumes above Enceladus, indicating there must be hydrothermal vents on the floor of the subsurface ocean.