In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Ocean explorers have long tried to chart the contours of the seafloor, but today's maps still pale in comparison to those of distant planets.

To do it, you need special ships to crisscross the ocean and bounce sound waves off the seafloor, which can get expensive. “The cost estimate was somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 ... Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries.

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, aka SWOT, has provided one of the most detailed maps of the seafloor ever created.

GEBCO-NF Alumni wants to map the entire sea floor by 2030 using the pair of robotic ocean explorers. It's an ambitious plan, considering that less than 10% of the world's oceans have been mapped ...

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 ...

Maps of the seafloor are constantly expanding, especially with the support of the Seabed 2030 initiative (which Ferrini is part of) that aims to have a complete map of the ocean's floor by 2030.

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary ...

This took them to a relatively flat seabed off the coast of Okinawa in Japan, around 20 m (60 ft) deep. Both sting and electric rays were fitted with pingers and sent to the ocean floor along with ...