In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

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 ...

The collaboration aims to fill gaps in knowledge about the topography of the seafloor and create a comprehensive map of the ocean floor. – Joint press release of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ...

The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...

The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...

High resolution seafloor map of the Havre undersea volcano caldera with lava that erupted in 2012 lavas shown in red. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018 ...

Geochemical analyses link the geologic histories of the South Pacific Islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, and Samoa. This map shows the tectonic features of the area studied. (Credit: Gill et al, 2022) ...