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This striking shot, captured by an unnamed astronaut aboard the ISS in 2015, shows deep tidal channels cutting through the seafloor between a series of small islands, or cays, once used by pirates ...

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An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

These channels were created as water moved back and forth between the cays with the rise and fall of the tides, cutting through the seafloor like a hacksaw, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.