The Ocean Is Stranger Than Space

Warning: the ocean is way weirder than you think. Scientists have only explored five

percent of our oceans. That means we know more about the surface of Mars than our own underwater world.

Get this: there are underwater rivers flowing beneath the ocean. Brine pools form

when salt deposits dissolve, creating dense salty water that literally flows like a river

on the ocean floor. Touch one and you would die instantly from toxic concentrations. The ocean also contains

more historical artifacts than all the world's museums combined. Shipwrecks hold

treasures, ancient cities, and secrets we will never fully recover. And here is the

creepy part: we have better maps of Venus than our ocean floor. The pressure down