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Caption: Icy methane -- the patches of white in this image -- are known to collect on and below the seafloor where one tectonic plate dives under another. Sites such as this host a rich community of microbes able to live off the methane and without any sunlight. The microbes, in turn, serve as the base of the food chain in this environment.
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