Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map yet of the ocean floor, revealing thousands of underwater mountains and extinct volcanoes that were previously unknown. In a study published ...

Bing Maps just released an update that includes “bathymetric imagery," which provides a better look at ocean floor topography, as well as 13 million square kilometers of new satellite imagery.

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains. For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a ...

But the ocean surface topography has these bumps and dips due to gravitational effects that mimic what’s on the sea floor.” The scientists pulled data from two satellites, launched for other ...

Above: A marine gravity map of the North Atlantic Ocean Red dots show locations of earthquakes with magnitude > 5.5 and they highlight the present-day location of the seafloor spreading ridges and ...

It's thought that these waves are capable of shaping the topography of the ocean floor. Physical Review Letters, 2008. To be published. Matt Ford Associate writer.

Seabed 2030 hopes to map 100 percent of the ocean floor by 2030, which researchers say will be possible thanks to advances in technology and corralling already available data.

Now, two ocean floor mapping experts have gathered all the available data to make a new map of a 2,000 km by 1,400 km (1,240 mile by 870 mile) area in the Indian Ocean near where two boats may ...