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They may have just figured out why it exists.Deep below the Indian Ocean, there's a giant "gravity hole" over one million square miles in size, a depression in the Earth's crust that has puzzled scientists for decades.
One dip in particular, dubbed the Indian Ocean geoid low , has caught the attention of researchers ever since its first discovery back in 1948., Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore Attreyee Ghosh and doctoral student Debanjan Pal examined the dip, finding that the sea level of the surrounding ocean is almost 350 feet lower than the global average.
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