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Spa Day

Scientists use HOV Alvin’s manipulator arm to collect fluid from a hydrothermal vent about 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) underwater at a site named CrabSpa because the water temperature from the vent is much warmer (25ºC) than the surrounding deep-sea water (2ºC). Some of the marine microbes in samples from the site were considered microbial dark…

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