Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

The project's goal is to map all objects protruding 100 meters or more from the entire planet's ocean floor within the next ...

The quest to compile the definitive map of Earth's ocean floor has edged a little nearer to completion. Modern measurements of the depth and shape of the seabed now encompass 20.6% of the total ...

The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of this task has now been completed. When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was ...

Her maps not only helped her see the ocean floor in a whole new way, but they also helped change the way geologists and oceanographers thought about the Earth. When Tharp was still in elementary ...