These Weird But True Facts Made Us Realize There is So Much We Don’t Know About the World

Maps, maps, maps. Humans just love making maps. We have topographic maps, historical maps, political maps, road maps, and star maps. We don’t so much use them as a way of getting around as we do a way to help us find our place – whether it’s in our city, in society, or in the universe.

While it would seem that it’s much easier to make a map of something closer (like the ocean floor) than something farther (like Mars), that assumption doesn’t take into account one basic tool needed for map-making – visibility. Mars is much easier to see than the bottom of the ocean.