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NASA’s Space Satellite is Revealing Earth’s Hidden Depths Like Never Before
For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...
Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor
NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...
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Mapping the world
However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe ... A globe always offers a more accurate model of the Earth’s surface than a flat map because it is 3D.
Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...
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Earth's Interior
The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the ... Instead, scientists map the interior by watching ...
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Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space
More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of ...
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How plate tectonics will change Earth in 250 million years
According to plate tectonics theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into multiple plates that slowly glide over the mantle. This slowly changes Earth's surface ... animated maps based from his ...
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Mapping Ocean Floor Mysteries, NASA’s SWOT Satellite Unveils Earth’s Hidden Terrain Beneath the Waves
NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.
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Planet Earth, explained
Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other ... and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of monikers. Every other solar ...