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Since the late 1980s multibeam sonar has been providing highly detailed images of a large area of the sea floor.
To see the same composite image in Google Maps, simply click here or copy and paste these coordinates into the maps app or Google Earth: 22.6783604,-73.8282887.
A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.
With a 5-mile (8 kilometers) resolution and 21-day path covering most of the planet, just one year of data from SWOT gives a clearer picture of the ocean floor than 30 years of data collectively ...
Who Was Marie Tharp? Marie Tharp was a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Famed for making waves in the traditionally male ...