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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

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A screenshot from video showing an illustration of a satellite view of Earth.
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Just How Big Is the Ocean?

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Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.
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Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

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Where the pH is the lowest, corals can no longer grow - sand, rubble and seagrasses replace the reef.
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Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

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An image from a drone of Majuro island
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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

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A map of the Mid Ocean Ridge
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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor

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Screenshot from video tour of the Chikyu showing an illustration of the ship on water.
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Tour the Chikyu

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Down below where the sunlight cannot penetrate, the ocean is a dark, cold and alien landscape. Can life really exist in such an extreme environment? NOAA Ocean Today Every Full Moon takes a look at the bizarre and remarkable creatures that persist in the d
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Creep into the Deep

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an underwater volcanic eruption
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Submarine Volcanoes Erupting

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A screenshot from the video "Integrated Ocean Drilling Program" showing the front of a research vessel moving through water.
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

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an image of an underwater vent
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Submarine Volcanoes and Hydrothermal Vents

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It is estimated that the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan was 1,000 times more powerful than the quake that struck Haiti in 2010. Watch as Smithsonian geologist Dr. Liz Cottrell explains this and more about the major earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Understanding the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

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