As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

This reduction, mostly resulting from a global slowdown in seafloor spreading, caused ocean basins to deepen. In addition, the researchers calculated that heat flowing into the ocean from the hot ...

Nasa Earth Observatory The global map of seafloor features is based on ocean height data from the SWOT satellite. Purple denotes regions that are lower compared to higher features such as ...

But to date, only about 25% of it has been surveyed in this way. To produce a global picture of the seafloor, researchers have relied on satellite data. More accurate maps of the ocean floor are ...