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Sdasd tont Posted 10 years ago
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nd it is often claimed that Mars’s surface is the better recorded of the two.

The area of Earth’s ocean is two and a half times the area of Mars—and it is often claimed that Mars’s surface is the better recorded of the two. It took mere hours to find the crash site of Schiaparelli, an ill-fated Mars-bound space craft (see article). By contrast, the resting place of MH370, an airliner that disappeared over the Indian Ocean in 2014, remains unknown.

What's the meaning of "and it is...two",especially the word "recorded"? Dose this half sentence mean that it is more well-know that Earth’s ocean is two times the area of Mars?
  

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No. It means that many people say we have better information (eg maps) about the surface of Mars than we have about the bottom of Earth's oceans. the two refers to the surface of Mars and the bottom of our oceans.

— Clive

  • No.
  • It means that many people say we have better information (eg maps) about the surface of Mars than we have about the bottom of Earth's oceans.
  • the two refers to the surface of Mars and the bottom of our oceans.
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It means that many people say we have better information (eg maps) about the surface of Mars than we have about the bottom of Earth's oceans.

the two refers to the surface of Mars and the bottom of our oceans.
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sdasd tontWhat's the meaning
Just change "recorded" to "mapped" and you've pretty much got it. We have more detailed maps of the surface of Mars than we have of Earth's ocean bottoms.

CJ
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