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

The intense water pressure found deep in the abyss can crush most equipment, and the seafloor is essentially ... short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography, is a collaboration between NASA ...

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 ...