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James Cameron journeys to some of the Earths deepest, most extreme and unknown environments in search of the strange and alien creatures that live there. Joining him is a team of young NASA scientists and marine biologists who consider how these life forms represent life we may one day find in outer space not only on distant planets orbiting distant stars, but also within our own solar system. Aliens of the Deep is the result of expeditions to several hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and the Pacific. These are violent volcanic regions where new planet is literally being born and where the interaction between ocean and molten rock creates plumes of super-heated, chemically-charged water that serve as oases for animals unlike anything ever discovered. Six-foot tall worms with blood-red plumes and no stomach, blind white crabs, and a biomass of shrimp capable of "seeing" heat all compete to find just the right location in the flow of the super-heated, life-giving water or to fry trying. Not dependent on sunlight (like all other life on earth), these ecosystems are as close to alien as anything ever imagined and provide one possible blueprint for the life that might exist beyond our world.
James Cameron
Self
Anatoly M. Sagalevitch
Self - MIR Chief Pilot and Keldysh Expedition Leader
Genya Chernaiev
Self - MIR Pilot
Victor Nischeta
Self - MIR Pilot
Pamela Conrad
Self - Astrobiologist: JPL
Arthur 'Lonne' Lane
Self - Astronomer and Planetary Scientist
Jim Childress
Self - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara
Dijanna Figueroa
Self - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara
Michael Henry
Self - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara
Kevin Hand
Self - Planetary Scientist: Stanford University and SETI Institute
Maya Tolstoy
Self - Marine Seismologist: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Loretta Hidalgo
Self - President: Space Generation Foundation
Kelly Snook
Self - Planetary Scientist: NASA
Megan McArthur
Self - NOAMA Astronaut: NASA
Tori Hoehler
Self - Astrobiologist, AMES
Charles Pellegrino
Self - Science Observer
Michael Atkins
Self - Science Observer
Christina Reed
Self - Science Coordinator and Science Observer
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