Book club with scientists are trying to study and document the microbes that live in the rocky, waterlogged crust beneath the world's oceans yet undiscovered world of gas like planet. It's an extension you might say the belly of the Earth an "Under Earth" that simulates "Upper Earth" kinda a double crust layer. This would still have directive gravity as we would know it to be as their is some evidence to suggest this has occurred with steam. Much about the microbes that dwell deep below the oceans is mysterious. In fact, nobody has ever caught them alive. Yet there are indications that their sheer numbers are enormous, representing up to a third of the biomass on the planet."There may be countless cells — astronomical numbers," Bach said. "But they are barely metabolizing," he said. "They don't do much, which makes it extra hard to find them and to figure out what they do."
These microbe observatories are drilled into a specially selected spot on the ocean floor, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a long volcanic rift bisecting the Atlantic Ocean, where two tectonic plates are being slowly shoved apart and fresh oceanic crust is created. "It's a huge habitat just in terms of volume, and there is a fair amount of energy available to support life," said Wolfgang Bach, a petrologist at the University of Bremen in Germany and the co-chief scientist on a research expedition that recently installed two observatories (called corks or circulation obviation Retrofit type Kits) these are planted deep below the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The project is a part of the International Ocean Drilling Program, which is sponsored in part by the National Science
Foundation. The observatories, two sealed-up holes drilled deep into the ocean floor, are designed to essentially provide some irresistible real estate for sub-seafloor microorganisms, and over the course of the next several years, scientists will return to see what has moved in.In the holes, the researchers installed chunks of different types of rocks and minerals, such as basalt, olivine, and various forms of iron, which naturally occur deep in the ocean crust, within different chambers built into the observatories, offering any microbes that happen to arrive inside these corks their is a series of apartments type laboratories to choose from. "We leave them in there for five years and when we retrieve those — that's a big moment.
As it has been told to book club its An Amazing Planet!
Monday, June 25, 2012
Oceans Apart With Life.
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