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This photograph, taken about 2,200 meters under the Sargasso Sea in the Main Endeavor Hydrothermal Vent Field, show a probe - center bottom - from the submersible Alvin sampling hydrothermal vent fluids.

Image courtesy Peter Girguis and Scott Wankel

Exploring hidden life’s abundance

Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very likely never before seen by human eyes.

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