Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Hunting for #HydrothermalVents / Buscando #FuentesHidrotermales https://schmidtocean.org/cruise-log-post/hunting-for-hydrothermal-vents/
"#Scientists hunt for #hydrothermal plumes in the deep ocean using a technique called the ‘Tow-Yo’. This involves a series of #sensors attached to a wire that live-streams data to the ship. The sensors are lowered down to the #seafloor, along with a rosette that secures water sampling bottles. The wire is then slowly towed from a moving vessel, while lowered and raised repeatedly, maximizing the area"
Hunting for Hydrothermal Vents - Schmidt Ocean Institute
Traducción al español a continuación. This expedition is in collaboration with the Galápagos National Park, Charles Darwin Foundation, and the local navy, INOCAR. Over a mile below the water’s surface in the western Galápagos spreading center, the seafloor is slowly spreading apart. Lava pushed up from Earth’s mantle cools and forms new ocean crust, pushing … Continued