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 ...

She is also part of a global race to map the entirety of the world's ocean by 2030, which experts say is essential not just for pure scientific knowledge, but human safety and technological ...

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 ...

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

In 1957, Lamont researchers Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen published the first comprehensive seafloor map of any ocean when they released their sonar-based physiographic map of the North Atlantic.

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.

"It's crazy to think that we don't have a complete map of our planet," one researcher involved in a project to map the entire seafloor by 2030 told Live Science. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

but how they infiltrate critical ocean systems. Researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution patterns by size and ...