An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s gravity field, and it is a particularly useful tool. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. “Seafloor mapping is key in both established ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have devised a new map of the Earth's seafloor using satellite data, revealing massive underwater scars and thousands of previously uncharted sea mountains residing ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years. At present, ship-mounted ...

– Joint press release of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and GEBCO Seabed 2030 – At least twice in the last 20 years, nuclear submarines have collided with previously unknown ...

The deep-sea remains one of the most unexplored regions on Earth, due in large part to the immense challenges posed by its depth and vastness. Yet, the recent advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Global map showing gravitational variations caused by topographic changes. In purple higher features like seamounts and in green lower features like rift zones. There are better maps of the Moon’s ...

For many years, scientists have known more about the Moon’s surface than the depths of our planet’s oceans. The ocean bed has been one of the most unexplored areas on our planet because of its vast ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

Whirring over a sun-streaked patch of tropical seafloor, a submersible equipped with cameras is helping to provide the most detailed maps ever recorded of underwater shelves and struggling coral reefs ...

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