Manganese nodule on the seabed seems to be a source of oxygen – and may have been formed by bacteria
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Metal nodules deep in the ocean appear to produce substantial amounts of oxygen through several unknown mechanisms, researchers revealed last year. Now we may have found how it is happening – and it is also possible that the same process produces oxygen to help terraform Mars.
Chaomin Sun, The Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues discovered that two types of deep-sea bacteria can produce large amounts of oxygen. moreover,…
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