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 ...

Languages: English. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this ...

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 for centuries. Folklore and myths told of it as the ...

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

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 ...

Without Tharp’s first map of the ocean floor, the scientists who developed the first theoretical models of plate tectonics would have had nothing to look at–and, therefore, no theories to develop. Yet ...

Ocean County wants you to identify the most dangerous streets on an online interactive map. You can anonymously place pins, draw lines and write comments about why certain roads or intersections ...