Only a vague outline of this bizarre landscape was visible on the old map, which had a resolution of 27,000 square feet per pixel, actually quite good for the seafloor.

Now, with the recent release of a giga-pixel (1.4 billion pixel) bathymetric map of the Gulf of Mexico seafloor scientists are able to interpret one of the largest coherent 3-D seismic images in ...

The map shows the land holdings and geneology of a family in central Mexico. It covers an area that runs from just north of Mexico City to just below Puebla, roughly 100 miles away to the southeast.