To celebrate Earth Day, relax with these stunning deep-sea landscapes
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In honor of Earth Day, we invite you to relax with these stunning scenes miles below the ocean’s surface. The landscape of the deep sea is ever-changing, with views that rival the sublime beauty found at our national parks and monuments on land. Canyons have sediment tumbling down their steep walls, tectonic plates move against each other, causing underwater earthquakes, and volcanoes erupt with flowing lava. The most prolific volcanic systems on Earth are hidden beneath the ocean’s depths. Scientists have estimated that there could be more than one million submarine volcanoes around the world. Volcanic eruptions result in a remarkable variety of formations as molten lava hardens at various speeds in cold seawater to form spectacular features like bulbous pillows, hollow domes and channels, jagged pillars, and folding sheets.
Although the entire ocean crust was created this way, it is exciting and rare-even for deep-sea geologists-to observe this breathtaking scenery. Less than ten percent of the seafloor has been mapped at the same level of detail as the Moon and Mars. MBARI’s mission is to advance marine science and technology to understand our changing ocean-from the surface to the seafloor. For more than three decades, we’ve explored the deep ocean, recording thousands of hours of video with our remotely operated vehicles and mapping thousands of kilometers of seafloor using advanced mapping vehicles. Together, these tools are helping to create a clearer picture of the uncharted ocean frontier.
Learn more about how MBARI uses cutting-edge technologies to gain unprecedented access to the deep seafloor: www.mbari.org/focus-area/seaf...
Video producer/editor: Kristine Walz
Production team: Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
Music: Absolute Calmness by Daniil Davydov (Motion Array)
Geological feature in order of appearance:
Note: The red dots are lasers 29 cm (11.4 inches) apart used for measurement.
0:00 Lava drainback | 1,667 meters (5,469 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
0:19 Lava channel | 1,570 meters (5,150 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
0:34 Collapsed pit and lava pillars | 1,570 meters (5,150 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
0:45 Collapse pit and lava pillars | 1,570 meters (5,150 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
0:55 Fissure | 1,767 meters (5,797 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
1:12 Ropy folded flow | 2,298 meters (7,539 feet) | Alarcón Rise, southern Gulf of California
1:26 Lavacicles | 1,712 meters (5.616 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
1:45 Lava pond | 2,142 meters (7,027 feet) | Endeavor Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
2:06 Lava whorls | 1,574 meters (5,164 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
2:31 Lava pond | 1,528 meters (5,013 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
2:55 Pillow lavas | 2,073 meters (6.,801 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
3:21 Close up pillow lava | 2,073 meters (6,801 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
3:31 Ropy flow | 1,715 meters (5,627 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
3:48 Drainback | 1,528 meters (5,013 feet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
4:04 Hornito | 2,088 meters (6,850 fet) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
4:19 Large drainback | 1,853 meters (6,079 meters) | Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
4:33 Lava pillar | 2,327 meters (7,634 meters | Alarcón Rise, southern Gulf of California 
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For those who are wondering, if you hover over the timestamps on the video, it tells you what they are, where they are, and how deep the location is. 🙂
Thanks
Спасибо большое. Так страшно там.🇷🇺
Do we know how old those formations are? They seem pretty well preserved to he that old but I just can't hold myself from smiling over the thought of those being millions, maybe billions of years old and just remain in all that glory
These are different locations and eruptions, but many of them are relatively new. For example, there was an eruption that occurred in 2015 at Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge that our researchers studied.
You're looking at old lava flows, the blobby ones are pillow lava, formed by instant cooling against water, and the stacked curve-and-pillar forms are probably the remains of lava tunnels that have collapsed and become partial. This is a really geologically active area.
How beautiful ❤ I just love the shots where we see all sorts of animals swimming and wriggling and sitting on the rocks.
I wish you had a multi hour camera live Fred
Beautifull!
Great to get real vision of lava flow made structures at the bottom.
I had no idea that lava could be so deadly and beautiful at the same time making these beautiful landscapes.
Mesmerizing!
Thank you for your videos. Just breath taking ❤
Wanted to dive there, then i saw the depths neatly summarized in the descriptions..
Great work!! ❤
Watching this, and just how magnificent and beautiful it is, makes me happy us humans are not able to just "go visit" as we can destinations on land.
🌼🌺🌻🌸🌺🌻🌷🌼🌺🌸🌼🌻🌺🌸🌻🌷🌺😍😍
Awesome 🪸
Cheers from San Diego California
Thank you so much❤❤❤
WOW! Thank you
Simply the best
I want to live down there; 7,000 feet or deeper.
It's so cool
Awesome.
looks great
Wicked !❤
What is the size of this 4:19.
I mean scale comparison to daily objects
What is the long organism in the bottom left at 4:44?
The thing sitting atop the lava pillar could be a stalked sponge or sea pen. It's hard to tell since it's out of focus. The white thing out of focus in the background behind the pillar is a sea cucumber!
@MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) thank you, I didn't realise sea cucumbers lived that far down!
Ropey part looked like old fossil cactuses 🤣
Awesome, wish someone was speaking to what I was looking at. Facts are fun 🙂
If you hover over the timestamps on the video, it tells you what they are and how deep the location is. 🙂
The video description contains a lot of facts 😊
@@Suzz60947 Watching and listening to what I am seeing is the lazy brain way to capture reality 🙂@Ellary Rose also 🙂
Всё на Свете вещество/
Эмоционально сказано/
ВНЕ СОЗНАНИЯ/оно/
Есть ли/не доказано ?!//
εμφανώς κάπως έτσι δημιουργουνται τα επόμενα νησιά και η ξηρά που σιγά σιγα ανεβαινει στην επιφάνεια και άλλα μέρη της ξηράς βυθίζονται και αυτα των βαθών αναδύονται
Earth day ? more like idgaf day, am i right fellas... give me five
Creepy! This is why you can't pay me to go into the ocean. Nope!😁😅
this looks faniliar . . . Okeanos?
Is it just me or at some points in this video there seems to be lots and lots of little squid ?
🩵💙💚
The landscape seems to be a mighty amount of fossilized feces from diplodocus. 😂