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Scientists visited Gakkel Ridge, a hydrothermal vent ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean, for the 1st time.
WHOI geochemist Chris German tells @sciam.bsky.social, “It’s so hard to get there that anything anybody does is almost guaranteed to be exciting and different and new."
Dive in: go.whoi.edu/gakkel