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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...
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New NASA Satellite Shines Light Into the Darkness of the Ocean Floor Like Never Before
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.” ...
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Purpose-driven inventors: Bringing the sea floor to the surface
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 ...
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Mountains in the Sea
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 ...
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
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 ...