More precise maps created using data from the SWOT mission can enhance underwater navigation and provide deeper insights into ...

Purple denotes regions that are lower compared to higher features such as seamounts and abyssal hills, depicted in green.

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

Now they're focusing on refining their picture of the ocean floor by calculating the depth of the features they see. The work complements an effort by the international scientific community to map the ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for ... Underwater mountains called seamounts and other ocean floor features like their smaller cousins, abyssal hills, influence the movement ...

But it's true: With cameras and sensors, spacecraft have mapped lunar landscape features over the ... likely from a long gone ocean This global map of the ocean floor is based on data from NASA's ...

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 ...

A retired scientist claims to have identified the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, nearly 11 years after its ...