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We cannot picture an ocean world where life runs on chemistry instead of sunlight

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On worlds without sunlight, life may depend on chemosynthesis, energy drawn from chemical reactions, but this concept is hard to imagine and teach. The challenge asks solvers to design a scientifically grounded fictional aquatic world sustained by chemosynthesis and the organisms that could live there. This stretches understanding of where and how life might exist beyond Earth.

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