Meet Marie Tharp: The woman who never went to sea but discovered the hidden world beneath the oceans in 1957 and changed Earth science forever
- PC: BBCFor much of the twentieth century, the deepest parts of the oceans remained among the least understood places on Earth.
- Ships crossed vast stretches of water every day, yet almost nobody knew what lay beneath them beyond scattered depth measurements collected for navigation.
- The seabed was often imagined as a broad, featureless plain interrupted only by occasional underwater mountains.
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- PC: BBCFor much of the twentieth century, the deepest parts of the oceans remained among the least understood places on Earth.
- Ships crossed vast stretches of water every day, yet almost nobody knew what lay beneath them beyond scattered depth measurements collected for navigation.
- The seabed was often imagined as a broad, featureless plain interrupted only by occasional underwater mountains.
Sources: Times of India