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Yep, it's quite misleading since the region where they looked for water at all is an incredibly thin layer on the outside of the planet, but they show it all as if it applied to all of the volume.


There’s nothing wrong with their representation. You’re describing a different comparison.


It's not bad on purpose if that what you understood.

But the comments here are full of "it's so little!" variants, where if you took the rest of the Crust and smashed as a sphere, it wouldn't be much larger than the water one.

It did evidently mislead a large number of people.




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