I suppose most of the ocean would freeze, but I wonder if the parts near the vents would not freeze.
And then I wonder if the life that doesn’t need the sun down there, would still live.
I suppose most of the ocean would freeze, but I wonder if the parts near the vents would not freeze.
And then I wonder if the life that doesn’t need the sun down there, would still live.
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Deep ocean may not freeze, so there could still be flowing water. but the food chain would have collapsed leaving nothing to eat for most organism. Also the water could get a lot more salty killing anything unable to handle it.
Microbes probably would, but the animal life relies on oxygen which is ultimately largely supplied by sunlight. That said, “dark oxygen” was recently discovered being produced by manganese nodules on the sea bottom, and that might still fuel some life.