Svalbard (image)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Caption

In summer, the sun never sets on Spitsbergen; in winter, it never makes it above the horizon. Nevertheless, the bacterial community on the sandy bottom of the sea does not change.

Credit

Katrin Knittel

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