New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between ...

The map was created using data from the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean Topography), a joint mission of NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).