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The first visit to an undersea vent was on April 21, 1979, 10 years after our first visit to the moon. | The NeMO Net site |
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project EOI Program |
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Millennium Observatory Network |
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The site | ||
Site location |
The NeMO
Net system was deployed in 1500 meters of water on the SE flank of the
Axial volcano approximately 300 miles west of Newport, Oregon on September
9, 1999. Nascent Vent
is about a football-field-sized area on the east side of the 1998 lava
flow. It was so-named on its discovery in 1998 (by the remotely operated
vehicle ROPOS) because of the very young tube worms that had begun
to colonize the surface of the lava flow. The warm water emitted from
the interstices of the lava is rich in hydrogen sulfide, which the worms
are able to utilize by bacterial chemosynthesis. |
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