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.

A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica provides the most accurate representation of this vast area to date. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer.