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New NASA Satellite Shines Light Into the Darkness of the Ocean Floor Like Never Before
A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been ...
Underwater Volcano Off Oregon Will Erupt This Year, Scientists Predict
It brings the BOOM. It, of course, is the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off Oregon which scientists predict will ...
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Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever detail
Vast tracts of terrain have never been properly surveyed. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) has taken five years to compile and updates the first attempt at a ...
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One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
We need all these individuals to come together if we're to deliver an ocean map that is absolutely fundamental and essential to humankind." GEBCO stands for General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans.
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NASA Scientists Find New Way To Scan Ocean Depths From Space
The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works specifically to determine ocean depth, or bathymetry, in shallow, nearshore environments. Landsat, the longest-running ...