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John Kemp deploying CAMPER.

John Kemp deploying CAMPER.
John Kemp deploying CAMPER.
John Kemp deploying CAMPER.
John Kemp deploying CAMPER.
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Linder, Christopher L.
John Kemp deploying CAMPER.
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12/30/2008
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John Kemp sends Camper off on its final mission for this expedition. It brought back images of extensive, abundant fields of the yellowy-orange material, lining the crevices between seafloor rocks and sometimes billowing up and over them. Scientists believe it is microbial and/or material made by microbes. Further detailed analyses on shore will provide answers. "We did not find hydrothermal vents emitting high-temperature fluids," Humphris said. "We certainly found evidence that there is fluid movement through volcanic crust on the Gakkel Ridge, which appears to be supporting life."
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WHOI engineer John Kemp sends the sampling camera instrument Camper off on a solitary mission to the deep Arctic Ocean floor, from the Swedish icebreaker Oden. During the 2007 expedition to the remote, unexplored Gakkel Ridge, scientists sought evidence of hydrothermal vents and employed new robotic vehicles. Camper brought back images of fields of yellowy-orange material on the seafloor that scientists believe is produced by microbes consuming chemicals seeping up through the ocean floor.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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