Scientists have shown how the Earth would look without oceans

Most of the Earth is known to be covered by oceans.

What would our planet look like without all the bodies of water?

The author of the video works at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).For the new video, he took an animation created by NASA in 2008 and added some details to it.In particular, I edited the timing and added a tracker that shows how much water "dries out".

The first to become visible when drycontinental shelves. Our ancestors could use some of their parts for migration from continent to continent. The animation also shows the longest mountain range of the planet, which becomes visible only when the water level drops from 2000 to 3000 meters. It is a mid-ocean ridge that stretches for 60,000 kilometers across the globe. Most of it (90%) is now hidden under water.