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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
Robert Ballard
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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
Film Director
Geologist
Naval Officer
Non-Fiction Writer
Oceanographer
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
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