Think of the word "corals. " What images come to mind? If you are like most people, you envision vivid, colorful mounds of impressive brain and staghorn corals: the kind of corals that make up tropical, shallow-water reefs like the Great Barrier Reef. But what about corals in the deep? There are corals that live in much deeper, colder waters — where there is no sunlight — and that 's what this mission is about. |