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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Educating the educators means these teachers engage in hands-on learning experiences during a two-day workshop hosted, in ...

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Trenches are created by plate tectonics and they often run roughly parallel to the coastline of their continent. The deepest of them all is the Mariana ... an ocean-centric map of the world's ...