Sentences with phrase «around hydrothermal vents on»

Potential Europan habitats include deep - sea colonies based on heat - loving bacteria like those found around hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor.

At the other extreme, searing - hot ecosystems spring up around hydrothermal vents on seafloors.

Suggestions of hydrothermal activity on Europa led researchers to speculate that life there could resemble ecosystems around hydrothermal vents on Earth and would survive on chemosynthesis, extracting energy from chemicals.

Not exact matches

The two were collaborating on a study of mid-ocean ridges, chains of volcanoes and hydrothermal vents that snake around the planet like the seams on a baseball.

A hotspot on the ocean floor could become a living laboratory where marine scientists can study underwater volcanoes and the weird life that clusters around the plumes of superheated water spurting from hydrothermal vents.

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

The revolutionary discovery in the 1970s of a thriving complex marine ecosystem around the hydrothermal vents of the Galapagos Rift on the ocean floor of the eastern Pacific forever changed our understanding of habitability showing that life could also arise and flourish in the complete absence of sunlight in conditions that were utterly toxic to any other life forms on Earth.

The new version of Google Earth allows users to mouse around under and over the seas, click on video clips of hydrothermal vents, read up on which seafoods are being harvested unsustainably, look at marine dead zones and sanctuaries and the like.