{"id":693986,"date":"2021-06-22T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693986"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:10:34","slug":"some-seafloor-microbes-can-take-the-heat-heres-what-they-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693986","title":{"rendered":"Some seafloor microbes can take the heat: Here&#039;s what they eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold in the depths of the world&#8217;s oceans; most of the seafloor is at a chilly 4\u00b0C. Not so the seafloor of Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California. Here, tectonic plates drift apart and heat from Earth&#8217;s interior can rise up\u2014so far up that it bakes large areas of the seafloor sediments, turning buried organic matter into methane and other energy-rich compounds.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-seafloor-microbes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Some seafloor microbes can take the heat: Here&#8217;s what they eat<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold in the depths of the world&#8217;s oceans; most of the seafloor is at a chilly 4\u00b0C. Not so the seafloor of Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}