Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of this task has now been completed. When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was ...

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LT: Mm-hmm. LA: There's a global initiative of scientists that launched a project in 2017 called Seabed 2030. They recently announced that they've mapped a quarter of the ocean floor. LT: This grand ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...

Our maps of the sea floor are less detailed than our maps of the moon or Mars. There's only one operational permanent underwater research facility on the planet: the Aquarius Reef Base.