Sentences with phrase «for hydrothermal vents»

The pathways for the hydrothermal vents at a mid ocean ridge are marked clearly.

Puma navigates and hunts for hydrothermal vents using chemical sniffers and lasers to detect smoke traces.

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The hydrothermal vent system was discovered by researchers from the Centre for Geobiology at University of Bergen (Norway).

Biochemists have managed to synthesise 10 of them in experiments that simulate lifeless prebiotic environments, using proxies for lightning, ionising radiation from space, or hydrothermal vents to provide the necessary energy.

Given developing efforts to mine deep - sea hydrothermal vent fields for precious metals, the scientists involved in this research suggest that conservationists and management agencies need to consider a broader range of factors in their efforts to predict the environmental impacts and the resiliency of affected communities.

This chemical reaction between rock and water occurs, for example, in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

And other data suggest that this ocean sits on a rocky mantle that could be dotted with hydrothermal vents — potential hotspots for life.

It also confirms that hydrothermal vents are a plausible location for at least part of this process to have occurred.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Within two years, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Maryland will release self - guided robots to visit the hydrothermal vents deep beneath the Arctic ice shelves for the first time.

Steaming hot pools and scalding undersea hydrothermal vents provide a cosy habitat for heat - loving extremists.

Hydrothermal vents may have existed once on Mars and may still exist in an ocean under Europa's icy crust, some scientists say, making them prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life.

We have shown that hydrothermal vent fluids contain almost none of the organic carbon which accumulates in the oceans, which means that vents are a sink for this unreactive «stored» carbon.»

While mud volcanoes are fairly common on Java, Lusi is a hybrid between a mud volcano and a hydrothermal vent, and its connection to the nearby volcano will keep sediments cooking for years to come.

But this past August, when scientists reported observing water from a hydrothermal vent acting like a liquid and a gas simultaneously at 867 °F, nature had thrown them for a loop.

The results launched a hunt for life's origins that's now uncovering these building blocks in surprising places, like the surface of comets and in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents

At the time of their designation, the largest of the sites was the 95,000 - square - mile Marianas Trench monument near the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, an area that has been compared to an underwater Yellowstone and Grand Canyon for its unique geology of hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes and pools of boiling sulfur.

However, potent compounds from the marine environment, especially extreme surroundings such as hydrothermal vents or arctic regions only await to be unveiled which undoubtedly hold promises in the discovery of tyrosinase inhibition, thus opening new perspective for treatment of skin disorders as well as neurodegeneration related diseases.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.

Such reactions at hydrothermal vents and in other extreme environments on Earth produce high abundances of hydrogen, which some microbes use for food.

In 2009, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution embarked on a NASA - funded mission to the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean, in search of a type of deep - sea hot - spring or hydrothermal vent that they believed held clues to the search for life on other planets.

But for Van Dover, that value can not compare with the richness of the thriving animal communities inhabiting Earth's hydrothermal vents.

A mysterious glow from deep - sea hydrothermal vents may provide the light source for a newly - discovered bacterium.

Silica found in the jets can be produced only in water close to boiling point, indicating that hydrothermal vents are also present in the subsurface ocean — making the icy moon a hot target in the search for life.

At the moment, scientists have confirmed, using DNA analysis, that snotworms are closely related to the tubeworms that thrive around hydrothermal vents and probably have existed for as long as whales, if not longer.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

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.

Sending out a spacecraft that can drill through the ice and probe for organisms will be the only way to find out if the moon in question doesn't have vaporous plumes like those that originate in the hydrothermal vents of Enceladus.

It is nearly impossible to locate and investigate hydrothermal vents because they occur too deep for traditional exploration techniques and emit a soup of hydrogen sulfide and other toxic chemicals.

Currently, we are exploring several environmental samples retrieved from allover the world - ranging from hydrothermal vents in Japan to hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and New Zealand — for the presence of novel archaeal (and bacterial) lineages using cultivation - independent approaches, such as metagenomics and single cell genomics.

«We report for the first time, a unique behavior where the deep - sea skate, Bathyraja spinosissima, appears to be actively using the elevated temperature of a hydrothermal vent environment to naturally «incubate» developing egg - cases,» the researchers wrote in the journal Scientific Reports on Feb. 8.

It is also thought that hydrothermal vents may regulate the chemistry of the global oceans and could be responsible for the elemental composition of seawater as a whole.

One puzzle for scientists to figure out is why the chemistry of hydrothermal vents changes, not only among locations, but over temporal scales as well.

While symbiotic relationships in coral reefs have been known for some time, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 has spurred an interest in symbiotic relationships, and led to their recognition in many other types of habitats, such as mangrove swamps, mud flats, and sewage outlets.

«Hydrogen is a source of chemical energy for microbes that live in the Earth's oceans near hydrothermal vents,» said Hunter Waite, principal investigator of Cassini's Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), in a statement on Thursday (April 13).

The discovery of hydrothermal - vent communities showed that it is possible for life to evolve in places without light from the sun, and in other worlds without sufficient light from the parent star.

For the ocean to be liquid there must be substantial sources of heat — from tidal heating based on the shape of its orbits, or from heat emanating from radioactive decay and entering the ocean through hydrothermal vents.

This Website offers information and resources for studying seafloor animals, hydrothermal vents, mid-ocean ridges, axial volcano, lava flow, and tools and technology.

Any search for «Magic Mountain» would have returned a disambiguation page showing the obvious links, and any search for Magic Mountain Hydrothermal Vent, would go directly there without the parenthesis.

I think the various theories around hydrothermal vents are the best explanations for origin of life.

Scientists at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.

For example, we know that there is extensive hydrothermal venting activity on some parts of some ocean floors.

Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep - sea hydrothermal vents — places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.

Hey Joanne, yet another one of your fans fails to find evidence to support your theory that hydrothermal vents is responsible for the increase in OHC.

Citation: Rogers AD, Tyler PA, Connelly DP, Copley JT, James R, Larter RD, et al. (2012) The Discovery of New Deep - Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography.

For example, one can not eliminate deep temperature changes from hydrothermal venting or geodesic changes from effects such as the East Pacific Bulge - or the troublesome class of unknown unknowns.

It was first discovered in 1997 in a black smoker hydrothermal vent at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, setting the upper temperature threshold for known life to exist at 113 °C.