Sentences with phrase «hydrothermal vents similar»

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We found that the particles seen in our images, which were droplets of ocean only hours earlier, bore evidence of large organic molecules and compounds that indicated hydrothermal activity similar to that observed at deep - sea vents on Earth's seafloor.

The impact aftermath killed most life on Earth, but the crater itself (bottom)-- shown with a central peak — remained hot long after the blast, perhaps creating a hydrothermal system similar to deep - sea vents.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

But some researchers have challenged that theory, noting that chemical activity around hydrothermal vents could produce similar structures.

The vast distances that separate hydrothermal vents make them similar to isolated island ecosystems, Adams says.

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.

That means it must be continuously produced there, probably by hydrothermal reactions similar to those that occur near hot vents at the bottom of Earth's oceans (Science, doi.org/b5s9).

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

Many distant worlds have never received as much light as Earth, but it is suspected that some of them have hydrothermal systems similar to Earth's deep - sea vents.

Mars is thought to have contained oceans with similar conditions to those near hydrothermal vents at around the same time the fossils were thriving, living creatures.

«The amount of molecular hydrogen we detected is high enough to support microbes similar to those that live near hydrothermal vents on Earth,» added co-author Christopher Glein, who specializes in extraterrestrial chemical oceanography, also of SwRI.