NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...
NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...
Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...
Most climate models now show that cutting emissions won’t be enough to curb global warming, leading to new interest in carbon ...
More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans.
Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...
A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...
The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...
In many parts of the world land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up', explained the lead author of the ...
The interaction between these two vast oceans is governed by several scientific factors, including salinity, temperature, water density, and ocean currents. Where Do the Pacific and Atlantic ...
After nearly 40 years at sea, the world's largest iceberg has run aground ... It spent six months last year spinning in a revolving ocean current in the Southern Ocean before finally breaking ...