An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s gravity field, and it is a particularly useful tool. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship ...

A massive deep-sea ravine in the Pacific Ocean has been mapped out in greater detail than any other part of the world's seafloor. The new maps of the "deep-sea Grand Canyon" have a "centimeter-scale ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have created a stunningly detailed seafloor map of the largest submarine canyon off of the US Pacific coast. Using sonar data ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. “Seafloor mapping is key in both established ...

– Joint press release of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and GEBCO Seabed 2030 – At least twice in the last 20 years, nuclear submarines have collided with previously unknown ...