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Posted on 03/12/2017 9:24:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A remote part of the Indian Ocean has become, by chance, one of the best-mapped parts of the underwater world.
The ocean is vast, deep, and unexplored.
When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared three years ago this week, the search brought the ocean’s vastness into sharp relief. This is how deep and dark it is three miles down. This is how unlikely you are to spot a downed airliner in 120,000 square nautical miles of open ocean. This is how much we know about the ocean floor—less than we know about the surface of Mars.
As the search dragged on and sonar swept the Indian Ocean, data also piled up. The surveyors found volcanoes and valleys and scars on the sea floor from tectonic plates pulling apart. This arc of ocean, delineated by calculations based on the plane’s last satellite pings, has by chance become one of the most thoroughly mapped regions of the ocean floor.
Scientists with Geoscience Australia, which provided technical advice and support for the search, recently published some of their findings. All of the underwater survey data will be released later this year.
The search area for MH370 is a remote part of the Indian Ocean a couple thousand miles west of Australia. “Geoscience Australia didn’t have any specific scientific interest in the area,” Kim Picard, one of the agency’s scientists, said in an email. But it was obvious that a high-resolution map of 100,000 square miles of ocean floor would have considerable scientific value in addition to aiding in the search for MH370.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
MH370 search discovers a shipwreck not the missing plane
news.com.au | 13th May 2015
Posted on 05/13/2015 1:46:03 AM PDT by naturalman1975
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3289273/posts
Ocean Search for Malaysian Airliner Finds 2nd Shipwreck [MH370]
Voice of America | January 13, 2016 | Associated Press
Posted on 01/14/2016 4:13:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3383809/posts
Note: this topic is from . Thanks MtnClimber.
Don Lemon (cnn) speculated that MH370 was swallowed up by a black hole.
I wonder if that was a double entendre.
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