Gulf Bacteria Quickly Digested Spilled Methane (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Gulf Bacteria Quickly Digested Spilled Methane (2 of 5)

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Deployment of the CTD Rosette system for collecting water column samples. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Jan. 6, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. John Kessler at Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "A Persistent Oxygen Anomaly Reveals the Fate of Spilled Methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico."

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Photo by Elizabeth Crapo/NOAA

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