Sentences with phrase «deep sea vents»

Recent research suggests that the element mix in ancient hot springs would have been more likely to give rise to life than that of deep sea vents.

This archaeon lives in deep sea vents near Japan, and survives by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide — both detected in Enceladus's atmosphere — while excreting methane.

The technology could improve underwater robots» ability to detect hazards, such as deep sea vents and shipwrecks, when the water is too murky for a camera to work effectively, or the object is too close for sonar, says Douglas Jones at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

«Microbial diversity is found everywhere from deep sea vents to the human gut or in association with plant roots.

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

On Earth, similar deep sea vents are oases for a wide variety of life.

These oceans can be kept warm despite their great distance from the Sun because of gravitational interactions between the moons and their host planet, and they might support the kind of life found in deep sea vents on Earth.

The experiments replicated the conditions present in deep sea vents, where hot and slightly alkaline water rich in dissolved CO2 passes over the mineral greigite (Fe3S4), located on the inside surfaces of the vents.

Deep sea vents have become attractive sites for mining, because they often contain high - grade metal ores.

Dr Lane said: «In these deep sea vents, there is a continuous flow of alkaline fluids, which mix with the ocean waters.

Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface.