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 ...

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old ... British charts published in the 1950s and 1960s have been the most accurate maps to date; the United Kingdom and United States claimed various ...

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don ... that moves a lot of the stuff we buy. “Accurate maps of the seabed help to keep thousands ...

Ships using sonar can also map abyssal hills, but it’s a slow and difficult task. To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more ...

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it,” John F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped ... a sophisticated sonar system yielding extremely accurate maps, but the system was secret and few oceanographers knew ...

A friend of mine who works in games design recently showed me a 3D model of the Earth, rendered in great detail using topographically accurate satellite ... much of the ocean — especially ...

A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica provides the most accurate representation ... Features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents ...

Scientists have managed to make the most accurate map yet of Antarctica's Southern ... time ever shows a new known deepest point of the ocean floor. It's a whopping 7,432m down and is called ...

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...

This information could help scientists protect critical sea lion habitat, as well as give researchers a new tool for mapping the ocean floor. It has also inspired at least one other biologist to ...