Sentences with phrase «similar deep sea vents»

Not exact matches

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.

Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface.

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.