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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
but her work is really about seafloor spreading, which occurs at the mid-ocean ridges that she was the first to map,” says ...
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Satellites map Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail
A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...
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Satellite measurements make major seafloor map improvements
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the seafloor to date, according to a new study in Science. The work could ...
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...
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Seafloor mapping XPRIZE final will be in the Mediterranean, off Greek coast
The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...
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Whale Song Echoes Help Scientists Map the Ocean Floor
For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, cetacean calls are a nuisance ... they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust ...