Scientists have captured how the Earth releases its energy.<\/p>\n
The number of mysteries regarding the Earth is getting significantly less in recent years as technology advances. And when researchers lowered a camera deep beneath an active volcano in the Pacific Ocean, they captured for the very first time how our planet releases its energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n What led to this remarkable feat of Mother Nature being filmed for the first time?<\/p>\n Our plant is far from just a static rock in the cosmos; it is in a constant state of evolution, much like us.<\/p>\n The Earth’s crust is not simply one massive, solid piece; it is a great conveyor belt of tectonic plates that are never settled and are constantly moving. In some parts of the ocean, magma rises to create new ocean floor<\/strong>, while in other parts, the older crust is forced back into the hot interior of the planet.<\/p>\n Some of the most recognizable features in certain parts of the world are a result of our planet’s never-ending evolution.<\/p>\n Such as the fjords in Norway. These were created when massive ice glaciers acted like sandpaper and carved out huge valleys and flattened mountain ranges<\/strong> over thousands of years.<\/p>\n Not only is our planet constantly adapting as its environment and chemistry are altered<\/strong> over thousands of years, but animal life is displaying remarkable behaviors too.<\/p>\n Such as the recent discovery made by a marine ecologist that saw sperm whales protecting unrelated mothers during the birthing process.<\/a><\/p>\n Some changes are good for the planet, while others exhibit the disastrous effects we have had on the Earth. The never-ending boiling pot of life<\/strong> that is the Earth is like a toddler on a sugar rush, never standing still and in constant, almost blurry motion.<\/p>\n Many of the most iconic and beautiful parts of the world have been ravaged by pollution, mostly caused by us humans.<\/p>\n This paradox of protecting the very planet we live on and progressing as a society has had a few unforeseen effects on the world, such as an iconic dam in South Africa<\/a> that has slowly been polluted from runoff over the last few decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n But how exactly is the planet releasing the unfathomable amounts of energy it has stored away?<\/p>\n A study, “Voluminous Inflated Lobate Flows on the Distal Rift Zones of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Spreading Ridge,” published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems<\/em><\/a>, has filmed the process recently.<\/p>\n The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has played a vital role in developing a better understanding<\/strong> of the alien world that exists deep beneath the surface of our oceans.<\/p>\n Filming odd and unexpected happenings beneath the ocean<\/a> is becoming a more common occurrence in recent years.<\/p>\n But when the team from MBARI and their collaborators lowered a camera, specifically an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, they ended up filming how the planet releases its energy<\/strong>, for the first time ever, we might add.<\/p>\n They used the AUV to film and document massive, 1,200-year-old lava flows on the seafloor.<\/p>\n They revealed through this process how an underwater volcano releases energy via the “inflated” lobe formation<\/strong>. The research is significant for us as a species because it is the first time that we have gotten a detailed look at how these enormous underwater volcanic structures are formed.<\/p>\n While above-ground volcanoes force the local population into a state of panic<\/a>, scurrying to get to safety, this underwater “film shoot” has shown how the planet releases the vast amounts of energy it has stored away for thousands of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scientists have captured how the Earth releases its energy. The number of mysteries regarding the Earth is getting significantly less in recent years as technology advances. And when researchers lowered a camera deep beneath an active volcano in the Pacific Ocean, they captured for the very first time how our planet releases its energy. What … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_focus_keyword":"volcano,pacific,camera","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"A team of marine researchers lowered a camera beneath the ocean surface to capture, for the first time ever, how underwater volcanoes release energy.","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How the Earth continuously reshapes itself over time is amazing<\/h2>\n
Life on this third rock from the Sun is nothing if not adaptable<\/h2>\n
Seven minutes that will change how you see our planet forever<\/h2>\n