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Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Tongue of the Ocean. Never heard of it? It’s a 6,000 feet deep oceanic trench off the Bahamas. Its deep blue waters are visible from space. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders about his 1968 NASA mission to orbit the Moon, and his photograph called “Earth Rising” that he took on Christmas Eve 40 years ago.

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