National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
United States Department of Commerce

Listening to the deep

Sun, 02/15/2015
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We know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than we do about the ocean’s seafloor. With water encompassing 63.78 million square miles, the oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, with the world’s largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean, covering roughly one third.