Topographic or satellite maps of Earth may reveal ridges and troughs that crisscross flat plains on the ocean floor, making it seem as though the entire ocean floor has been mapped out, Ferrini said.

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

Earth's oceans have topographic features and are held down by gravity, not contained by a giant Antarctic ice wall.

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In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Scanning a whole area of the seafloor, then, will give you a depth — or bathymetry — map. In the same way that a topography map shows elevation changes, a bathymetry map shows changes in depth.

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, aka SWOT, has provided one of the most detailed maps of the seafloor ever created.

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A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

The bottom of the ocean is vital to our climate because heat travels through the undulating waters via paths shaped by the ocean floor’s topography.

Topographic map of the Nordic Seas and subpolar basins with surface currents (solid curves) and deep currents (dashed curves). [Photo by R. Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Science ...