For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a vast and mysterious frontier has remained largely unexplored right here on Earth—the ocean floor. Despite ...

Scientists have published a map showing the Southern Ocean floor in unprecedented detail. The new images, generated from sonar data that took years to collect, show canyons, ridges, and mountains ...

The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before ... To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more than map ...

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. When you purchase through links ...

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 ...

His inventions are helping to map the ocean floor in detail for the first time. Photo by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVEWORKS Today, Ved’s work is inspiring and enabling future talent as he leads a ...

Covering 48 million sq km (18.5 million sq miles), this chart for the first time details a new deepest ... The new map covers all the Southern Ocean floor poleward of 50 degrees South.

"But we also had an ulterior motive," Tharp wrote. "Detailed contour maps of the ocean floor were classified by the US Navy, so the physiographic diagrams gave us a way to publish our data." ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge stands out in glorious detail on this map of the Atlantic Ocean Floor by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. Painted by Heinrich C. Berann, it was published as a supplement to the ...

Detailed maps of the seafloor held the key to plate ... [Related: Jacques Cousteau’s grandson is building a network of ocean floor research stations] “We don’t, as a project, have the ...