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Dark Oxygen Could Change Our Understanding of Habitability


The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source support life in the ocean depths? And if it can, what does that mean for places like Enceladus and Europa? What does it mean for our notion of habitability? Oxygen is key to complex life on Earth, where photosynthesis generates most of it.

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