Oceans cover 71% of our planet.
According to the U.S. Geographical Survey, there are approximately 321,003,271 cubic miles of water worldwide. That would be sufficient to fill about 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallon-sized containers.
The ocean is vast and deep. This makes concentrating on it highly challenging.
Researchers have precisely mapped just 5% of the ocean floor. The surface of the moon and Mars are more identified than we do about our sea depths. New technological innovations might ideally change this throughout the next few decades.
However, what would happen to the planet without oceans, rivers, or lakes? It would look different inside and out, but what if it did not exist?
What if the Oceans Disappeared?
NASA recorded the Earth's oceans drying up thirteen years ago. The data came largely from NASA's Earth Observatory, an online center for satellite imagery and data.
That video showed the Earth's oceans being drained at a rate of 10 meters per frame. Ultimately, only the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the ocean, was left without water.
However, that was thirteen years ago, and the video is low-resolution. So, a planetary scientist at Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recreated it with a higher resolution.
The video shows how shallow some seas are and provides insight into what Earth resembled when substantially more of its water was frozen and how people might have migrated.
The shallow oceans blur immediately between the UK and Europe, Russia and Alaska, and Asia/Oceania and Australia. You can instantly find it interesting how water just scarcely isolates them.
During the last Ice Age, ocean levels were 100s of meters lower as a lot of water was locked up as ice on Earth's polar areas, so you can find in the early portions of the video how human migration was possible before ships were created.
So, instead of just showing what the ocean floors resemble, the animation recounted an ancient human story.
What happened to Mars?
Seas used to be everywhere in the universe. They were deep, shimmering, planet-covering seas that nestled for billions of years and then dried up.
In any case, practically all that water is gone today. The planet's polar ice caps are the main proof that a sea existed at any point.
So, how did the ocean on Mars dry up?
The predominant theory for Mars is that solar winds wick away Mars' water from its atmosphere. The sun continually shoots charged particles from its moist surface toward its divine bodies.
Like Earth, a few planets are shielded from the plasma invasion because their magnetic shield redirects approaching particles worldwide to their poles. (This is the component that creates impressive auroras on Earth.)
But Mars, in contrast to Earth, lost its magnetic field sooner or later in its experiences. Without the invisible shield, the planet is powerless to fire solar winds. The theory goes that these equivalent winds split exposed water molecules on the outer layer of Mars' sea and thumped them into space like an enormous cue ball hitting billiard balls into the side pockets.
The vanishing of the sea on Mars occurred throughout billions of long stretches of unstable space climate. Since Earth has a solid magnetic field, it appears impossible that our home planet would come to pass for a destiny similar to that of its red cousin.
In any case, researchers caution that the dangers of Earth's changing climates might prompt comparably harmful results. On our planet, we can expect sea levels to rise instead of fall, and sensational changes are caused not by solar winds or meteor strikes but rather by people.
World Without Water
There is a reason why the planet is surrounded by mostly water. One for sure is for its living organisms to survive.
Thus, it's implied that humanity wouldn't survive exceptionally long in a world without water. The same can be said for all species and plants since water is one of the building blocks essential for life to flourish.
Below are a few possible impacts if all of the water on this great green Earth disappeared overnight.
Changing faces
First of all, it wouldn't be so green for extremely long. With no water supply, all vegetation would soon long vanish, and the world would take after a tarnished dot instead of a green and blue one. Clouds would stop forming, and precipitation would stop, implying that wind patterns would predominantly direct the weather.
Besides changes in wind force, the environment would take after one unending summer, yet not the shorts-and-shirt situation kind, the flesh-meltingly hot one. The oceans of the world comprise the greatest deposits of carbon (and recently, it was tracked down that Arctic melting released nitrous oxides (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), also).
If these "sinks" were gone, greenhouse gases would have a field day, and temperatures would be out of control.
Vegetation shortages would add to the issue (since plants do not convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen), compounding the circumstance. The present environmental change issues would appear to be tiny fry in correlation.
Fewer volcanoes, more mountains
Maybe shockingly, the volcanic activity would diminish even with a water shortage. Supervolcanoes and their eruptions are brought about by tectonic plates crashing into one another and running more than each other, often brought about by the heaviness of seas pushing one plate underneath another.
When a volcano has been formed, water likewise plays a necessary role in its instability. The liquid inside the Earth's crust becomes magma at high temperatures and tensions, producing emissions like those at Vesuvius, which was accomplished for helpless old Pompeii.
With no sea to burden plates and no water to control eruptions, any time two tectonic plates are impacted, the world is left with extraordinarily high mountain edges.
Such an interaction would require centuries to occur. However, the outcome would be a desert-like, infertile world populated by spiky edges and gulfing channels.
We Can Still Do Something
Knowing what the possibilities hold once the world’s oceans all dried up is terrifying. It is unimaginable that the flesh-melting sensation is the best description you can get once this occurs!
On a lighter note, it is good that scientists have thought of this possibility. It is an ample warning to everyone to take care of the Earth. Even so, theories have surfaced that the planet might experience it with a slight chance. Nothing would go wrong if people go hand-in-hand against harming it.
It is good that we have satellites, buoys, underwater vehicles, ship tracks, submarines, and other resources dedicated to understanding our oceans. This way, we can be informed about what is happening now and in the future.
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