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The most relevante of the bottom of the sea

Inusual depths

What are they hiding from us?

Why did they stop studying the sea? What are they hiding? What do they not want to come to light? The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest on Earth. It covers more than 155 million kilometers, so that we get an idea how big the Pacific Ocean is, the entire Earth layer could be brought together, the Pacific account is called the "ring of fire" because of the area of ​​seismic and volcanic activity surrounding its edges. The resulting chain of volcanoes is some 40,000 kilometers long and comes to life where the Pacific tectonic plate slides or collides with the other tectonic plates that surround it. More than 80% of the oceans remain unexplored or even mapped, says the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office States (NOAA). For this reason, this is the first great mystery that we should name To give you an idea: if you took a flight from New York to Beijing, you would be traveling over more than 2,200 kilometers of unexplored regions, according to the Bureau of Economic Geology research unit of the University of Texas at Austin. Also, there are maps of Mars or Venus that They are 50 times more detailed than those on the ocean floor.