Experts Sealed The World’s Deepest Man-Made Hole Because Of What They Found

Published on 08/02/2021
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Years Of Careful Planning

This wasn’t your typical spur-of-the-moment mission, either. In fact, they spent two years determining the best time and location for the dive. There’s a reason for the delay. The truth is that we know more about the skies than we do about our own planet’s ocean floor.

Years Of Careful Planning

Years Of Careful Planning

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We Know Little About It

We’ve learned more about the surface of Mars than we have about the ocean floors around us. Let’s take a look at things from a different perspective. Earth’s distance from its neighboring planet is 140 million miles. The average depth of the ocean, on the other hand, is less than 12,000 feet, or about two miles!

We Know Little About It

We Know Little About It

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