Sentences with word «hydrothermal»

In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico.

«New kind of hydrothermal vent system found in Caribbean.»

The paper from researchers with the Cassini mission, published in the journal Science, indicates hydrogen gas, which could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life, is pouring into the subsurface ocean of Enceladus from hydrothermal activity on the seafloor.

According to a report in today's issue of the journal Nature, that modest rumble caused 10-fold increases in the flow of fluids in hydrothermal vent systems located nearly five miles away.

Cultivation - Independent and Cultivation - Dependent Analysis of Microbes in the Shallow - Sea Hydrothermal System Off Kueishantao Island, Taiwan: Unmasking Heterotrophic Bacterial Diversity and Functional Capacity — Kai Tang — Frontiers in Microbiology

«What better place to look for adaptations and unusual compounds that have unusual characteristics than in the most extreme environments we can go to on this planet,» says Richard Lutz, a professor of marine ecology and biology of deep - sea hydrothermal vents at Rutgers University and director of the school's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

Some parts of the ocean are naturally acidic, such as at hydrothermal vent sites - underwater «hot springs».

Carbon was then absorbed onto the edges of these minerals during the circulation of hydrothermal fluids, giving a false impression of carbon - rich cell - like walls.

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

When particles from the plumes entered the spacecraft's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), they interacted with its titanium walls, producing the same sort of hydrogen as hydrothermal processes would create under Enceladus's ocean.

One such area is on the Alarcón Rise, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the Pescadero Basin, where MBARI researchers discovered several hydrothermal fields in 2012.

Ban and NREL colleague Zhuangchun Wu used hydrothermal synthesis and vacuum filtration to build lithium - ion anodes that don't require the typical binders (the adhesion strength that allows the battery to endure charge - discharge cycling) yet have high capacity.

As NASA explains on its website, among other discoveries, Cassini revealed the icy jets that shoot from Saturn's minuscule moon Enceladus, which showed evidence of an underground ocean with hydrothermal activity within it.

Scientists believe the ocean exists as the result of heat generated by hydrothermal activity the moon's interior.

Knowing that strontium derived from land shows a slightly higher ratio of strontium 87 than strontium derived from hydrothermal circulation, the scientists compared isotopes in each type of barite.

In an email interview with Newsweek, lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that while he can not speculate on the presence of alien life on Enceladus, their timescale for hydrothermal activity does bolster the case that microbial life could emerge.

The first one (above) shows the resource potential for the country, with the redder areas being more favorable for deep enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), and dots identifying known hydrothermal sites.

«Metro Vancouver hopes to be the first wastewater treatment utility in North America to host hydrothermal liquefaction at one of its treatment plants,» said Darrell Mussatto, chair of Metro Vancouver's Utilities Committee.

Direct Dry Steam Steam plants use hydrothermal fluids that are primarily steam.

Undersea hydrothermal conditions on Earth at about that same time are a strong candidate for where and when life on Earth began.

Visually stunning and very steamy, Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring is one of many hydrothermal features the park owes to the massive supervolcano beneath it.

River rafting is popular with cruisers, while skilled divers might head for Arnarnesstrytur where hydrothermal chimneys deliver 79 - degree warm water streaming from a cone.

«It is evocative of the deep - sea hydrothermal environments on Earth, similar to environments where life might be found on other worlds — life that doesn't need a nice atmosphere or temperate surface, but just rocks, heat and water.»

Muusoctopus hydrothermalis feeding; image courtesy of The Field Museum / YouTube That octopuses can survive in the extreme, sunless environments around deep hydrothermal vents is surprising enough.

This study highlights the importance of deep ocean water circulation through hot hydrothermal systems as one of the main removal processes in this environment balancing the supply.

The possibility of undersea hydrothermal activity inside icy moons such as Europa at Jupiter and Enceladus at Saturn feeds interest in them as destinations in the quest to find extraterrestrial life.

Russell and his co-authors describe how the interactions between the earliest oceans and alkaline hydrothermal fluids likely produced acetate (comparable to vinegar).

«Ancient, deep - water hydrothermal deposits in Eridania basin represent a new category of astrobiological target on Mars,» the report states.

«You can create hydrothermal systems like those on early Earth where life may have formed.»

Such reactions in hot water under pressure are called hydrothermal syntheses.

It was an exciting moment — we hadn't expected to find hydrothermal activity in this area.»

However, little is known about hydrothermal venting from these common features.

Pohlman believed chemosynthetic bacteria, like the kinds found around deep - ocean hydrothermal vents, must be the answer.

The mix of minerals identified from the spectrometer data, including serpentine, talc and carbonate, and the shape and texture of the thick bedrock layers, led to identifying possible seafloor hydrothermal deposits.

Thanks to a peekaboo window from the marble bathroom to the bedroom, the coastal sunshine even shines through to your very own hydrothermal tub.

In 2012, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) used undersea robots to discover a new hydrothermal vent field along the Alarcón Rise at the southern end of the Gulf of California.

The new study determined that the methane contained in the fluid leached from sub-seafloor rocks, and was not formed through hydrothermal vent circulation, as had been previously thought.

Cooperation with AVA Biochem is part of comprehensive KIT activities for manufacture of chemical energy carriers as well as intermediates from biomass with emphasis on so - called hydrothermal methods i.e. reactions in water at increased temperatures.

Farmer helped select the landing site for Mars Pathfinder and thinks that the Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now in orbit have begun the job of meeting the first - stage requirements of finding potential ancient hydrothermal systems — for example, the Mars hematite site at Terra Meridiani.

NE Syrtis is an impact crater that may have hosted hydrothermal activity for some time in the distant past.

«When people were thinking about ocean chemistry, it was always centered on hydrothermal flow, but there was little data,» Johnson says.

Within this area the researchers found at least three active hydrothermal chimneys up to 12 meters (40 feet) tall, as well as dozens of low mounds that are most likely collapsed chimneys.

sas (20)-- One possible way to stabilize CO2 is the generation of biocoal via hydrothermal carbonization.