Years Of Careful Planning
However, this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment idea. Two years of meticulous planning actually went into discovering the right time and location to make the monumental plunge. And for that, there is a very good explanation. You see, in our solar system, we know more about other planets than we do about the Earth’s ocean floor.
Years Of Careful Planning
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We Have Mapped Mars
Indeed, we have succeeded in mapping the surfaces of Mars in greater detail than the surfaces of the seas around us. The average distance between Mars and Earth is 140 million miles, to put that in some context. In comparison, the ocean’s average depth is just over 12,000 feet, which is nearly two miles.
We Have Mapped Mars
