As ships resume the search for missing malaysian airlines flight mh370 in the depths of the indian ocean this week, we often hear that the oceans are 95% unexplored and that we know more about the surface of the moon or mars than the ocean floor.
22+ Do We Know More About Space Or The Ocean
Images. We must know more about the oceans, right? In truth, the answer is complicated.
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The pacific ocean is the largest ocean covering more than 30% of the earth. As ships resume the search for missing malaysian airlines flight mh370 in the depths of the indian ocean this week, we often hear that the oceans are 95% unexplored and that we know more about the surface of the moon or mars than the ocean floor. We must know more about the oceans, right?
Even though humans have explored and mapped large parts of the planet mars and the moon in outer space, only a small part of the oceans of the world.
Why do we know so little about the oceans? The space is an ocean trope as used in popular culture. Yet the global ocean is largely unexplored and unknown. We may know more about mars than we do about our own oceans.
