The ocean is far deeper than most people realize, holding secrets and mysteries that continue to astonish scientists and explorers. Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean is not only ...

The Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world’s oceans, has long captivated scientists and explorers alike. Located in ...

The previous global map of the ocean floor, created using the same techniques and published in 1997, had a resolution of about 20km. So we do actually have a map of 100% of the ocean floor to a ...

MARIANA TRENCH (CBSMiami) -- While silence fills the depths of outer space, researchers are finding out that our planet's oceans can be quite deafening. Scientists with the National Oceanic and ...

Her mission: to map a slice of the mysterious Mariana Trench. ... a United Nations initiative that aims to produce a publicly available map of the entire world’s ocean floor by the year 2030. ...

Global ocean map could increase safety, give early tsunami alerts : Short Wave Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would ...

A 2019 expedition to the Philippine Trench, with Filipino oceanographer Deo Florence Onda and American explorer Victor Vescovo, explored the Emden Deep, known to be the third deepest part of the ocean ...

Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.

It was the first time anyone spied a worldwide picture of what lay beneath the ocean in such detail—volcanoes, underwater mountains, fracture zones, and trenches. “Haxby’s maps of the world ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed.

Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the western Pacific Ocean that spans more than 1,580 miles (2,540 kilometers) and is home to the Challenger Deep ...

There is, however, currently an effort underway to create a definitive map of the ocean floor, called Seabed 2030. Still, there are huge gaps in what’s known of the deep sea.