Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...
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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...
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Mapping Ocean Floor Mysteries, NASA’s SWOT Satellite Unveils Earth’s Hidden Terrain Beneath the Waves
NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.
Next-generation water satellite maps seafloor from space
More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans.
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How Deep Is the Ocean?
The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, where pink denotes the shallowest water (continental shelves and oceanic plateaus), compared with the yellow-green of mid-ocean ridges ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn ...
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Mars may have had an ocean billions of years ago, Chinese Zhurong rover data suggests
According to an international team of researchers, the ridges are evidence of ancient beaches formed by tidal deposits from an ocean, just like they do on Earth. The discovery, reported in the ...