Years Of Careful Planning
This expedition is not the usual spontaneous mission. They spent the last 24 months planning the best time and location for the dive. And the long delay has a valid reason. Why? It is because we know more about the sky than our own ocean floor.
We Know Little About It
We now know more about Mars’ surface than we do about the ocean floor. Allow us to put things into perspective. Our planet is 140 million kilometers away from its nearest neighbor. The typical ocean depth, on the other hand, is less than 12,000 feet, or around two miles!