Sentences with phrase «hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor»

Earthly life has proved remarkably hardy in similar extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and polar ice.

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

These include a groundwater sample found nearly 2 miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

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

This led researchers to argue that photosynthesis — and early life — evolved around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, safe from surface radiation.

Forty years ago when hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor were first discovered, scientists were amazed to find life where no sunlight penetrated, feeding off of sulfur gases.

He has done similar work aboard ships, rocking and swaying high above hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, when he wasn't in the submersible itself, exploring the steaming depths.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor known as «black smokers» may support undersea habitats on Europa, as on Earth (more).

Since their discovery in 1970, these microorganisms have been found in many extreme environments on Earth, including hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

Yet we know that life on Earth can thrive in extreme conditions: from the Antarctic (where temperatures can drop to almost -90 °C) to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor (where temperatures can exceed 460 °C).

The model therefore reinforces the idea that there is strong heat production in Enceladus's deep interior that may power the hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.