Microbes discovered by a lake of liquid carbon dioxide under the sea off Taiwan could help us locate life on Mars, researchers say.
Inagaki's team and researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, investigated an area at the southern end of the Okinawa Trough, about 1400 metres under the East China Sea. There, hot black sulphurous fluids are vented into the water from two seabed "chimneys" known as Tiger and Lion, a stunning phenomenon captured on video by the research team. View the footage here .
