2024年7月26日 · Yet, the life-supporting gas is abundant in this darkness-cloaked region, thanks to an unlikely oxygen factory: potato-sized, “battery rocks” on the seafloor. New research published this week in...

As the slope levels out at the continental rise (roughly 19,700 feet or 6,000 m) it gives way to the abyssal plain, the long stretch that accounts for roughly 70 percent of the world sea floor. But the ocean floor consists of more than just the flat and seemingly vacant abyssal plain.

2024年7月22日 · An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen — 13,000 feet below the surface. The surprising discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, generate Earth’s oxygen.

2025年1月23日 · Last year, the scientists made headlines when they published a paper about an unexpected revelation: They found evidence that naturally occurring “battery rocks” on the floor of the Pacific Ocean,...

2024年8月15日 · Alien-like animals that live 1000s of feet below the surface have adapted to hostile environments by taking on the most curious physical traits. What life lurks in the deepest, darkest parts of our...

2024年7月22日 · Here we report such experiments at the polymetallic nodule-covered abyssal seafloor in the Pacific Ocean in which oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background...

2019年7月12日 · The deep-sea is a relatively mysterious and unknown part of the Earth, as only about 1% of the ocean floor has been explored by humans. In fact, there have been more missions into space than journeys down to the greatest depths of the oceans.

The United States and Japan are developing research submersible systems that will be able to explore the ocean floor's deepest spot: the 10,920-m Challenger Deep at the southern end of the Marianas Trench off the Mariana Islands.

2025年1月17日 · Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures clinging to their sides. Unlike mountains on land that dare climbers and hikers to brave their peaks, underwater mountains, called seamounts, are vastly underexplored. ... “The deep sea is a dark, impenetrable place ...

2025年1月7日 · We’ve only mapped about 25 percent of the sea floor, but a recent push by NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating ...