In the remainder of its planned three-year science mission, SWOT will continue to collect data on ocean currents, map the ocean floor and assess global freshwater availability throughout the year.

His inventions are helping to map the ocean floor in detail ... robots to map the ocean floor methodically without needing to regularly resurface. Such detailed 3D imaging creates vast quantities ...

We’ve only mapped about 25 percent of the sea floor ... and ice,” and the new maps “will help us to answer some fundamental questions in tectonics and deep ocean mixing.” ...

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 ...

To get an idea of how detailed the map is, if you divide the map into ... s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents move ...