Jets of Superheated Water on Axial Seamount

Inside the Jason control van onboard the R/V Revelle, scientists and UW undergraduate students watch as the vehicle prepares to measure the jets of superheated water issuing from the hot spring chimney 'Inferno' (>290°C) nearly one mile beneath the oceans' surface at the summit of Axial Seamount. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V18.

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