The first group of submarines that could get into
the ocean’s depth were on the 70’s. They found an amazing world of rocks that
were firstly magna from inside the earth
and once it come to the surface they got solidified.
Normally water evaporates at 100 degrees but on
the ocean’s depth they can still be at 400 degrees because of the ocean’s
pressure. And here also scientific found that it was full of hydrogen sulphide
which makes impossible creature’s life, unbelievably they found life. There are
some worms that can live with temperatures higher than 80 degrees. Any other
animal can live in these conditions. But they found other underwater vents
which were also living a type of mussels.
Before doing that experiment people thought that
live was impossible without solar energy, but that’s not true as I explained
before. So the big question is: What do they use instead of solar energy? The answer
was on the worms which have some bacterias that can use the sulphurs as the main energy
source from the vents. These bacterias are the primary energy source of others species
that life her for example for crabs. The first time biologists saw it they thought
about a clue of how did life appear and it was obvious that was in the sea.
In the 1990 others submarines found an incredible
lake which was 800 meters under the water. It has too much salt in its
composition and was full of mussels again. So we are talking about other ecosystem
which was independent from the solar power. The difference was that the source
energy was methane. And there were lots of new animal species.
To sum up in the last ten years we have
discovered two types of weird ecosystems which don’t need solar energy,
something unexpected but, we already haven’t explored too much from the ocean’s
depth…
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