Lost City: Where Crust Meets Mantle

An anonymous reader writes "Track two-dozen oceanographers on their one-month expedition to the Lost City, submersed off the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Since up to a third of the planet's total biomass may live below 100 meters, one goal is to see if microbes can survive without volcanic heat--instead living off the heat of a limestone rock reaction where the crust meets the mantle. After 15 years of dormancy, this is also rumored to be the script line of the fourth Indiana Jones installment."

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Hydrothermal Fluid Particulate Sampler

[js7a]

That HFPS instrument sure is cool.

Not cool enough to sign up to get spammed by their voyage diary, though. I'll let the NSF give that to the school kids, and read the results when they make it back to shore and through peer review.