Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old ... The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more. Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration ...

Ships using sonar can also map abyssal hills, but it’s a slow and difficult task. To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more ...

The mysteries of the deep ocean have long tantalized human curiosity. Until recently, much of the ocean floor remained uncharted, a vast, dark expanse of unknown territory. However, thanks to ...

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...

Amateurs and experts alike could easily get a sense of the underwater topography from Tharp's map. "But we also had an ulterior motive," Tharp wrote. "Detailed contour maps of the ocean floor were ...

Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...