Tuesday, September 30, 2014

MH370 search reveals vast underwater world with huge volcanoes and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon | National Post

MH370 search reveals vast underwater world with huge volcanoes and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon | National Post: "Until now, scientists had better maps of the surface of Mars than of this ocean floor.

These images show for the first time a dramatic underwater landscape with mountains higher than Mont Blanc and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon – all 4.5 kilometres below the surface of the Southern Indian Ocean.

The discoveries were made as part of the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner, flight MH370, which disappeared six months ago.

Experts used pulses of sound, which are bounced off the sea bed, to uncover this previously uncharted world."



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