An expedition has traveled to Atlantis, the real Atlantis at least the one we know, the ship below has carried out a mission to the massif of Atlantis to discover the secrets of the history of the earth, on August 8 Cardiff University reported about the expedition to the bottom of the ocean that has broken a record and also provides clues to the origin of life.
The Atlantis massif is a dome-shaped region of the Atlantic Ocean about 16 km wide that rises about 4627 m above the base of the ocean, the highest part of this massif is only about 700 m Under the waves, it is believed that the Atlantis massif was formed below the mid-Atlantic ridge, which is that mountain range that cuts the Atlantic into two halves, but that massif broke away from it during the movement of the plates about 1 and a half million ago. to 2 million years.
Materials from the Earth's mantle are found there, it is as if the crust in that place had turned around and showed us what is underneath, and this is what makes this place so interesting for geologists, in the massif is the “ lost city”; You see how geologists can also be romantic and have imagination when giving names, that is what the Hydrothermal Chimney Towers are called, it is known that there are at least 30 active ones and the largest is Poseidon with 60 meters high and 100 meters wide. 60 meters high is brutal.
These chimneys are ideal places for microbial life and it is suspected that in the past they could have been the cradle where the first forms of life emerged in
the earth, the research that is in the news now establishes a new record for the extraction of rock core from the mantle, reaching 1268 meters of that type of rock, it is the largest record to date of that type of material, it is not the deepest of history, remember that the deepest in history was done by the Soviets in the Cola mine, on the Cola Peninsula with 12,262 meters.
Materials from the Earth's mantle are found there, it is as if the crust in that place had turned around and showed us what is underneath, and this is what makes this place so interesting for geologists, in the massif is the “ lost city”; You see how geologists can also be romantic and have imagination when giving names, that is what the Hydrothermal Chimney Towers are called, it is known that there are at least 30 active ones and the largest is Poseidon with 60 meters high and 100 meters wide. 60 meters high is brutal.
These chimneys are ideal places for microbial life and it is suspected that in the past they could have been the cradle where the first forms of life emerged in
the earth, the research that is in the news now establishes a new record for the extraction of rock core from the mantle, reaching 1268 meters of that type of rock, it is the largest record to date of that type of material, it is not the deepest of history, remember that the deepest in history was done by the Soviets in the Cola mine, on the Cola Peninsula with 12,262 meters.
This news is a record because it has the largest recording core of mantle material, which gives us a vision of what happens down there, beneath the crust, and the reactions that mantle materials have with sea water. , because apparently it produces certain chemical reactions that produce hydrogen and other molecules essential for the development of life.
All of this is fundamental, it happens on Earth and we know that it was at the basis of the origin of life and they are processes that could also occur on moons with subsurface oceans like the moon Europa, it is not underground because it is not below the earth, it is under ice of ice layers that is why it is subsurface or on the moon Enceladus, there in those oceans under water there is already a core of rock, they have ice on top, which is the crust that covers and protects them, water and the soil is of rock and suspects that at least in the case of Enceladus and Europa they have intense geothermal activity.
There is volcanism and activity that heats that water and that provides nutrients to that water, we are not yet certain that life exists there, but at least we know that it has many of the essential elements for life to have arisen on those moons with surface oceans. .
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