We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

The ocean floor is a vast scope on our planet that remains largely unexplored. Although oceans cover 71% of Earth, we have ...

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. Justine Calma is a senior science reporter ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

He's used satellite data to chart the bottom of the ocean since the 1990s and was one of the researchers ... on what would ...

But in 2008 a team of researchers used satellite images and modeling software ... Five years later they did it again, capturing a comprehensive view of an ocean in transition.

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean ...

What is the average depth of the ocean? The ocean has an average depth of approximately 3.7 kilometres (or 2.3 miles). A calculation from satellite measurements in 2010 put the average depth at 3,682 ...

As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km ... ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information collected ...

An image from PACE’s Ocean Color Instrument showing a type ... “so you can go from that satellite view and drill down all the way to the very near shore: What’s happening at my pier?