Sentences with phrase «from hydrothermal vents»

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.

Recently, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) researchers and collaborators have computed the dispersal of larvae from these hydrothermal vent ecosystems to understand and safeguard the animals found there.

In autumn 2011, she boarded a deep - sea research vessel of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) to collect samples of deep - sea benthos from hydrothermal vents in the Okinawa Trough.

These bacteria were found to live under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, while utilising the minerals that were dissolved in the hot water that was emanating from these hydrothermal vents from deep within the Earth, at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Celsius.

Water, salts, organics, and methane make their way from the hydrothermal vents on the ocean bottom to the surface through cracks in the icy crust, erupting as geysers.

Over the history of the planet, there have been many sudden peaks in CO2 related to volcanic eruptions, releases from hydrothermal vents, and other natural events.

A science - junkie film director sponsored an expedition that retrieved live nanobacteria from a hydrothermal vent.

He found them in sediment collected from a hydrothermal vent, sent to him by a retired oceanographer.

Astrobiologists fear that if the crust is too thick, any possible life would be limited to organisms that use chemical energy from hydrothermal vents, a very restricted niche.

«This is the first time we could see how deep ocean circulation processes potentially transport materials from hydrothermal vents,» Mitarai said.

These fields are surrounded by a unique set of animals, including vent crabs and eyeless vent shrimp, that survive off of the chemicals emitted from the hydrothermal vents.

OIST scientists mapped the dispersal of larvae from hydrothermal vent fields and connections between vent fields in the western Pacific Ocean.

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.

The rock is an extrusion from a hydrothermal vent, not seafloor sediment.

They deployed 10 of these floats to track potential larvae dispersal from hydrothermal vents.

Skin white, lacking any pigmentation; iris of eye absent; eyes small (single species from hydrothermal vents)..................................

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 were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005.

The bacteria have a sophisticated antenna system that allows them to collect the low light emanating from hydrothermal vents, the researchers explain in a report published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Deep - sea skates, relatives of sharks and rays, were discovered laying their eggs adjacent to hot water from hydrothermal vents.