The Challenger Deep

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The ocean floor is 70% of the ground cover of our earth, but only 20 % of it is mapped. What nicholl saw is just one spot in the challenger deep, which is itself just the tiniest fraction of the unknownha,. After the break, we zuom out to take on the rest of that unknown. How one woman's mapping project completely transformed the way we see our planet. There are a million reasons to go beyond the numbers with your finances. Your plan should lighten your step so that you can lift up others.

Earlier this year, Nicole Yamase explored the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest place in the ocean, where few people have ever been. The rest of the seafloor is almost as mysterious — 80 percent remains unmapped — but the few glimpses scientists have gotten have completely revolutionized our understanding of the planet.

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