High Temperature Beebe Vents Black Smokers (IMAGE)

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High Temperature Beebe Vents Black Smokers

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Too hot to host life, the high temperature Beebe Vents black smokers serve as the source fluids for nearby mixing zones that span the thermal boundary between habitable and uninhabitable below-seafloor environments. All vent fluids were collected with gas-tight, titanium hydrothermal fluid samplers that maintain bottom pressure before shipboard sample retrieval.

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Image credit: Chris German, WHOI/NASA, NSF/ROV Jason/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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