The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite, launched in December 2022, has mapped the seabed in just one year. This map, achieved with an 8-kilometer (approximately 5-mile ...

In January, a JCG survey vessel conducted acoustic surveys of the seabed topography near Torishima. The data that was obtained was compared with that taken in December 2022 to analyze whether ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

“The new Antarctic bed topography product was constructed using ice thickness data from 19 different research institutes dating back to 1967, encompassing nearly a million line-miles of radar ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Human activities in the Baltic Sea, such as bottom trawling and shipping, have left visible traces on the seabed, detectable for over a decade. High-resolution ...

More precise maps created using data from the SWOT mission can enhance underwater navigation and provide deeper insights into ...

The lack of precise measurements of the seabed topography is not accidental. Indeed, field campaigns in this region are particularly complex and costly due to the isolation of Antarctica, extreme ...

They were then transported across the deep-sea topography along the Sagami Trough seabed depression to areas around the sampling sites along the trench, the scientists said. By contrast ...