
Manganese nodules on the sea floor see to be a source of oxygen – and may have been formed by bacteria
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Metallic Nodules Found Deep in the Seem To Be Producing Significant Amounts of Oxygen by some unknown mechanism, Researches Reveled Last Year. Now, we may have found out how it is happaning – and the same process also also produce oxygen to help terraform mars.
Chaomin sun At the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and His Collegues have discovered that two species of deep-sea bacteria can produce large quantities of oxygen. What's More,…