Contact: Sandra Hines
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University of Washington
Caption: An approximately 2-foot-tall chimney on Axial Volcano vents hot hydrothermal fluids like the ones collected by University of Washington researchers in the search of archaea capable of fixing nitrogen at high temperatures.
Credit: Courtesy of the NOAA Vents Program
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