NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides, which affect life in ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

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

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

By attaching video cameras to sea lions' backs, researchers are not only learning about hyper-valuable endangered species habitat, but also expanding on their ability to map the ocean floor.

While instruments can peer through relatively shallow depths to the sea floor, for most of the ocean only acoustic ... and that's really what we want to map the ocean with." But the availability of ...

This expedition was the first use of closely spaced echo sounders to map deep sea topography and the first to reveal the extent of the sea floor's rugged terrain. The expedition also found that a ...