| The Hunt for Red Hot Hydrothermal Vents |
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| Photos by Chris Linder (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutioin), aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden.
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Hot, mineral-rich fluids gush from hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. To search for vents and the animals that live around them, scientists floating atop the ice-choked Arctic Ocean first look for plumes of fluids that trail out from the vents and drift in the depths. (Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, WHOI)
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Posted: April 15, 2008
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