Ancient Soil Microbes Are Surviving Deep Under The Pacific Seabed (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Ancient Soil Microbes Are Surviving Deep Under The Pacific Seabed (2 of 3)

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Scanning electron microscopic image of deep sub-seafloor microbes enriched using a bioreactor from ~2km-deep sub-seafloor coal samples at Site C0020 (mag. x1,500). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 24, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Inagaki at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in Nankoku, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor."

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[Credit: Hiroyuki Imachi, JAMSTEC]

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