Seabed of jet hunt zone mostly flat with one trench
Sunday, March 30, 2014 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
Two miles under the sea where satellites and planes are looking for debris from the missing Malaysian jet, the ocean floor is cold, dark, covered in a squishy muck of dead plankton and—in a potential break for the search—mostly flat. The troubling exception is a steep, rocky drop ending in a deep trench.