Dark oxygen a deep sea discovery that has split scientists

Oxygen is one of the living gases found in our atmosphere. Our breaths move on this gas. You must have heard that oxygen is found in the Earth’s atmosphere. But a new discovery can surprise you. Can you guess that there is something that can make oxygen in the depth of thousands of feet in the sea? And that too in the absence of sunlight! The new discovery says something similar.

Scientists have introduced a new discovery. Search says that oxygen is being produced in the depths of the sea where sunlight never reaches, and where lumpy metallic rocks are present. But how? Scientists have named it dark oxygen. Some scientists believe this theory while some scientists are challenging it.

This Study Has been published in the last July Journal Nature Geoscience. This is a discovery that has questioned a long -standing perceptions about the origin of life on earth and has given rise to intensive scientific controversy. This discovery was not only important for scientists but also for its mining companies that were eager to remove the precious metals hidden in these multiplemetallic nodules.

Researchers say that these potato -shaped bodies can cause enough electric current to break sea water into hydrogen and oxygen. This process is known as electrolysis. This discovery has raised doubts over the long -standing perception. Till now the perception was that life was possible when the organisms began to produce oxygen through photosynthesis about 2.7 billion years ago, which requires sunlight.

Environmentalists, seeing this, said that the presence of dark oxygen shows how little knowledge we have about life in such a very high depths. Environmental organization Greenpeace said they have launched a long campaign to prevent deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean, as it can damage the delicate ecosystem of the deep sea. The discovery was done in the Clarian-Cliprton Zone. The zone is an underwater area of ​​the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, increasing the interest of mining companies.

It is an area of ​​2.5 kilometers below sea surface. There are polymethetic nodules here with manganese, nickel and cobalt, and many other metals that are used in batteries of electric cars. Apart from this, they are also used in other low-carbon techniques. However, scientists are not unanimous on this discovery. At the same time, organizations associated with the environment are worried about how harmful mining in the sea can be for the ecosystem there.