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Published online 10 June 2009 | Nature 459, 770-773 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459770a
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Geomicrobiology: Low life
The boundaries of biology reach farther below Earth's surface than scientists had thought possible. Amanda Leigh Mascarelli delves into how microbes survive deep underground.
In February, a team of American and German oceanographers set out on a ship for a little-known destination in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean called North Pond. This patch of sea floor lies on the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge — the longest mountain range in the world — where the topography of the ocean bottom drops to form a 10-kilometre-long basin rimmed by underwater peaks.
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