NASA’s SWOT Satellite Just Revealed Thousands of Hidden Mountains Beneath the Ocean
We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...
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Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
A new effort using data from a NASA-led satellite is helping to change that, providing one of the most detailed maps of the bottom of the world's oceans ever created. The SWOT satellite ...
Map Shows What Antarctica Will Look Like Without Ice
Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...
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The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of
Among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks, this high-seas patch of ocean covers an ... uncharted that on the old maps, it would be designated ...
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The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing
It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate ... backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor.
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Going with the flow: Visualizing ocean currents with ECCO ocean model
Currents also move nutrients and salt throughout Earth's ocean basins. Swirling vortexes of the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from ...
Trump has fired scientists who monitor the ocean. It comes at the worst possible time
One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely ...
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Map Shows What Antarctica Will Look Like Without Ice
Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. Bedmap3 is the ... risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that's occurring at the fringes of the ...
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Water stored in the mantle for millions of years may be linked to continental volcanism
The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water ... The researchers then compared these maps of mantle water to ...
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How Deep Is the Ocean?
Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters. The Coral Triangle is a region of shallow ocean corresponding to the continental shelf between Indonesia and Australia ...