All posts tagged with hydrothermal vents
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Search for origin of life intensifies as NASA probes alien oceans on moons in the outer solar system
-(Natural News) Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are investigating alien oceans in three moons in the outer solar system in search of the origin of life on Earth. The moons in question – Jupiter’s Europa, Saturn’s Enceladus and Neptune’s Triton – are different from the rest of the more than 200 moons in the solar […] -
-(Natural News) Deep in the middle of the Northern Atlantic Ocean lies an underwater mountain that, at its highest, rises to be nearly 2,300 feet below the surface. This mountain, known as the Atlantis Massif, after the fabled city that sunk into the ocean, is filled with underwater chimneys that spew minerals and hot water into the […]
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-(Natural News) At the bottom of Mexico’s Gulf of California lies hydrothermal vents and cold seeps with hydrocarbon-rich fluids. A recent scientific expedition to this alien environment uncovered the existence of massive venting mineral towers that teemed with strange organisms. The towers reached heights of 23 m and widths of 10 m. Their volcanic flanges […]
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-(Natural News) The ice cap of frozen worlds – like the Jovian moon Europa – could be concealing alien life. In a Space.com article, new research suggests that heat from the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of global oceans could be reacting with oxidants that penetrate the ice sheet, there providing the conditions for life […]
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