Exploring the ocean floor: From the tallest mountains to the deepest trenches

Water covers about 71% of the planet and oceans hold about 96% of that water, according to the United States Geological Survey. Underneath all that water lies worlds unto their own – towering mountains, cavernous trenches and plains in between. As it turns out, we don’t know as much about the underwater part of Earth as many would think.

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