Auteur/autrice : Valentine Cassard
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Vanished Aircraft: The Cases That Modern Rechercher Technology Still Cannot Close
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014 transformed the modern public understanding of aviation accidents. Until that night, most people assumed that contemporary commercial aircraft, with their multiple redundant tracking systems, satellite data feeds and continuous radar coverage, could not meaningfully disappear. They can, as it turned out — at least…
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Deep Ocean Mysteries: What We Still Cannot Explain Below 1000 Metres
More than 80 percent of the world’s ocean remains unmapped at high resolution, according to the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) and its Seabed 2030 project. To put that another way: humanity has higher-resolution maps of the surface of Mars and the Moon than of the seafloor of its own planet. The deep…