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The longest mountain range on Earth is one almost nobody has ever seen: it winds some 65,000 km around the globe like the seam on a baseball, and more than ninety percent of it lies hidden beneath the sea

The longest mountain range on Earth is one almost nobody has ever seen: it winds some 65,000 km around the globe like the seam on a baseball, and more than ninety percent of it lies hidden beneath the sea

Ask most people to name the longest mountain range on Earth and you’ll hear the Andes, or maybe the Himalayas. Both are wrong, and not by a little. The real answer is a chain of undersea volcanoes almost no human has ever seen. NOAA calls it the longest mountain range on Earth, running nearly 65,000 [...] The post The longest mountain range on Earth is one almost nobody has ever seen: it winds some 65,000 km around the globe like the seam on a baseball, and more than ninety percent of it lies hidden beneath the sea appeared first on Space Daily .