Today, however, scientists reveal the clearest map of the ocean floor ever. They didn’t explore ... pulled apart millions of years ago. This detailed look at underwater geology comes from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

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 ...

"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." ...