An international team of scientists set sail on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too) research vessel in September to ...
A team of scientists from the University of Maryland has unveiled evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank when ... With the findings, they created a detailed map of the structures hiding beneath ...
Ship-based sonar has a resolution of about 200–400 meters (650–1,300 feet). The Seabed 2030 project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade using this method. However, the ...
It's now up to just shy of a quarter of the total area under water - at 23.4%. Better seafloor maps help us with navigation and conservation, among many other uses. Some 10 million sq km (3.8 ...
In its deep, dark waters, ancient shipwrecks are scattered across the seafloor. At first, wreck-spotting was far from the minds of the Maritime Archaeology Project (MAP) team, who started ...
De Ronde’s map revealed a fragment of the ancient deep seafloor in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, created some 3.3 billion ...
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 ...
The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...