Even though we have satellites that can map whole continents and GPS that ... divers found perfectly shaped circles on the ocean floor, each about two metres wide. At first, no one knew what ...

The actual area observed on the seabed is too small to represent on a map at this scale. Credit: Ocean Discovery League But when it comes to seeing what’s down there—be it remotely or in ...

This heat map shows the concentration of known deep ... In that sense, there’s probably more we “understand” about the ocean floor—particularly regarding its role in shaping Earth systems ...

Vast expanses of the sea floor remain where the only information available is from rough mapping tools, such as sonar, Bell says. “The Indian Ocean is one of the least-explored areas.” ...

Scientists have come up with a new high-resolution map of the ocean floor. The newly released findings show nearly 100,000 underwater mountains that were previously unknown. David Sandwell from ...

black whale in water during daytime. Image via Unsplash. The use of whale songs to map the ocean floor represents a beautiful confluence of biology, acoustics, geology, and advanced computing—a true ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a groundbreaking satellite called SWOT to map the ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring ... on ecosystems that human communities depend on. The map of seafloor features like abyssal hills in the Indian Ocean ...

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 ...

If successful, the professor believes they will have gathered enough data on the varying approaches to move closer to creating a high-resolution ocean floor map. “In three years, we expect to have ...

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. A new satellite has mapped ...