| In the end, researchers did not find hydrothermal vents, but they did discover curious mats of yellowy-orage "fluff"—composed of microbes and/or material made by microbes, perhaps fed by a weak flow of chemical-rich fluids seeping out of the seafloor. (Photos by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Researchers spent the same amount of time aboard Oden as Noah spent on his ark: 40 days and nights (well, make that 40 days and no nights, MIT/WHOI graduate student Clay Kunz pointed out).
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