Jan 31, 2012 Voyager: In looking at a world map showing ocean surface currents, it appears that with very few exceptions, currents do not cross the equator. Why is this?

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Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars' equator around 4 billion years ago -- a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there ...

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For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.