Deep ocean exploration
BBC Inside Science
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What Is the Biggest Problem With Vents?
Discovery in the late 19 seventies changed our knowledge of where life can persist on a planet. The animals have evolved a unique relationship with bacteria to gain energy and food. You can have these hydothermal ldeke systems, which are now the subject of space exploration missions costing billions and billions of dollars. And let us know, one a twigged in. We've known that for a long time. Whatt the big surprise is that a large, complex life can persists on these chemicals like sulphide,. using these very, very clever cimo synthetic asimbioses - they called 'synthetic organisms'
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