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 ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map yet of the ocean floor, revealing thousands of underwater mountains and extinct volcanoes that were previously unknown. In a study published ...

The oceans’ floors are not a flat, sandy expanse – they are every bit as varied as the landscapes above water, with plunging valleys and huge mountains. Making a map of them has been a ...

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 ...

Scientists have devised a new map of the Earth's sea floor using satellite data, revealing massive underwater scars and thousands of previously uncharted sea mountains residing in some of the ...

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 ...

Map by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management The strange geology of the floor of the Gulf is mostly caused by thick underlying layers of salt. Scientists think the salt probably accumulated around the ...

Today, however, scientists reveal the clearest map of the ocean floor ever. They didn’t explore the ocean floor. They didn’t even send instruments into the water. Instead, they used gravity ...

To map some 140 million square miles of sea floor, the Seabed 2030 project is currently recruiting around 100 ships that will circumscribe the globe for 13 years. The team, united under the ...

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 ...

The four assistants, along with several others, carried underwater video cameras and dived to parts of the ocean floor off Australia ... Scientists usually map parts of the seabed by using ...