More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

More precise maps created using data from the SWOT mission can enhance underwater navigation and provide deeper insights into ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say ...

Its goal? To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade. This goal is extremely ambitious. There are technical challenges, financial challenges, and political challenges. Five years to ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.

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Improved maps of the seafloor are essential to safe navigation, protecting the marine environment and helping us understand Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor ...