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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
New MH370 Search Launched: Map Shows Where They're Looking
The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.
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Whale Song Echoes Help Scientists Map the Ocean Floor
With a call as loud as a large ship, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are among the noisiest creatures in the sea. For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, ...
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Ocean floor topography to be completed by 2030; so far a fifth has been covered
Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say ...
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
A new map of the seafloor of the Southern ... Features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents move and how the affect are climate. Biodiversity is also influenced ...