| Diversity of life around diffuse hydrothermal flow areas along the Mohns Ridge. |
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| These sea lilies are ever so popular around the diffuse hydrothermal flow areas, also dubbed "pineapples" by a nongeologist onboard! |
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| We've haven't exactly been slimed, but we sure have been shrimped! |
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| The isosampler is used to measure flow and temperature around the diffuse hydrothermal flow areas. |
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| Gas bubbling out at the base of a chimney partly covered by bacterial mats. |
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| Hydrothermal mound with multiple chimney structures named the “Trolltindene”. The highest chimneys are 6-7 meters tall. |
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| Sea spider searching for food on a chimney as hot water ooze out from the chimney wall nearby. |
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| Finally, west of the moon and east of the sun, we found our Soria Moria with castle, the three princesses and the six-headed troll. |
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| Sea spiders straddling in-between tube worms that inhabit the seafloor in the vicinity of a hydrothermal vent. |
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A five meter tall chimney structure discharging 250 degree C water.
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| Shrimps “swarming” around a white smoker chimney. |
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| Chimney discharging 250 degree C water. The chimney is made up of sulfate and sulfide-minerals that precipitated from the hot fluids. White mats of bacteria, which live of the sulfur-rich water, cover the lower part of the chimney. |
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| A white, slender chimney, of yet unknown composition, discharging a jet of warm water. |
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