It was 6 a.m. 2 a.m. to my raddled East Coast brain and my husband, daughter and I were staggering through customs in the Ponta Delgada Airport, on the island of Sao Miguel, the largest of the nine islands that make up Portugal’s Azores archipelago.
Volcanic São Miguel, one of the nine islands in this Portuguese archipelago in the Mid-Atlantic, offers landscapes and experiences that are at once wild and serene.
Not once, but several times. Many examples of a ‘blue goo’ like thing – scientists couldn’t decide if it was an animal, plant, or mineral – were seen on video at a depth of 1,400 feet.
A study published in 'Nature Geoscience' revealed the presence of water in the Earth's mantle. The gem was originally from the Karowe mine in Botswana.
NOAA Ocean Exploration came across an blue, bumpy and formless unknown organism while exploring the depths of the Caribbean Sea near St. Croix, the agency said.