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Effort to Map the “Uncharted Expanses” of the Ocean Floor Funded by the Office of Naval Research
A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...
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NASA’s ICESat-2 Fires 2 Trillion Laser Pulses to Track Earth’s Changing Ice
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...
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Every 2.4 million years, Mars tugs on Earth so hard it changes the ocean floor
The stronger currents, known as "giant whirlpools" or eddies, may reach the seafloor at the deepest parts of the ocean ... of sediment on the ocean floor over tens of millions of years.
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Harry Hess
He made four major combat landings, incuding Iwo Jima. His ship was equipped for sounding the ocean floor, which was useful for Hess both as ship's commander and as a geologist. In 1945 ...