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| Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (Photo by Stanimir Stoyanov) |
Here we go mapping Mars,
when we don’t even know what
four-fifths of our own ocean floor
is like.
However, we’ve been
making rapid progress since 2017, the
year that the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO
Seabed 2030 Project began. During that short time, the number of modern
seabed surveys rose from a mere
6 percent to an encouraging 19
percent.
Yet to put this in
perspective, the remaining 81 percent
contains “an area about twice the size of
Mars.” And who knows what might be
lurking in those mysterious recesses? Perhaps some aquatic
Martians are already
mapping us…
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