<p>The height of Mt. Everest was revised to 8,848.86m this week. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh takes a look at how mountain and surface feature heights are measured on earth and on other bodies with no water.----more----Supplementary reading: The Wire | Alien Mountains Stand Tall on the Shoulders of Still Waters https://thewire.in/science/alien-mountains-stand-tall-on-the-shoulders-of-still-waters</p>

The height of Mt. Everest was revised to 8,848.86m this week. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh takes a look at how mountain and surface feature heights are measured on earth and on other bodies with no water.----more----Supplementary reading: The Wire | Alien Mountains Stand Tall on the Shoulders of Still Waters https://thewire.in/science/alien-mountains-stand-tall-on-the-shoulders-of-still-waters

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