Exploring the Earth's Abyss: Robotic Expedition Reveals an Alien World

Two recent deep-sea explorations have paved the way for our understanding of our planet's extreme environments and what life forms might be like on other planets and moons within our Solar System and beyond. In an engineering triumph that makes Captain Nemo look like a fat kind with water wings, the Nereus (rhymes with "serious") has plumbed the very depths of the ocean.

Visit / More...