How Satellites Are Mapping the Ocean Floor Without Getting Wet
Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...
BBC4 年
One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
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 ...
BBC2 年
One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
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 ...
PBS7 年
The Sea Floor Spread
It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...
来自MSN9 个月
Women Who Travel Podcast: The Race to Map the Ocean Floor
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 ...
Business Insider India1 年
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest ...
Her maps not only helped her see the ocean floor in a whole new way, but they also helped change the way geologists and oceanographers thought about the Earth. When Tharp was still in elementary ...