It’s part of a long-term effort, funded by governments and nonprofits around the world, to map the entire seafloor for the first time. And it’s got major global economic implications.

Challenger Deep is in the Pacific Ocean inside of the Marina Trench. It's just shy of 11,000 meters, or 6.7 miles, below the ocean surface. In July 2022, Wright and pilot and ocean explorer Victor ...

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Hand-painted rendition of Heezen-Tharp 1977 ‘World ocean floor’ map, by Heinrich Berann.© Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Tharp’s East-West profiles across the North ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

"It's crazy to think that we don't have a complete map of our planet," Ferrini said. Related: Scientists map the ocean floor mostly using sonar, a detection technique in which instruments in the ...

And I was really romantic about the ocean for a long time when I was growing up, so I read, you know, Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World.