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NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...
NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.
Scientists are warning about a potential eruption of the Axial Seamount, predicting it might occur before the end of 2025.
It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...
SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...
Scientists warn of a potential eruption of the Axial Seamount volcano, which they believe could occur before the end of 2025.
Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists ...
Just like the land that Lewis and Clark explored, the ocean floor contains natural resources ... By some estimates there are more than 100,000 seamounts containing minerals critical for national ...
The seamount rises 3,109 meters from the ocean floor, nearly four times the height of the Burj Khalifa and taller than Mount Olympus in Greece. The discovery was made during a 28-day expedition ...
Monitoring of two volcanic seamounts beneath the Pacific Ocean reveals the pulsed nature of their eruption cycles. The Axial Seamount submarine volcano exhibits an inflation–deflation cycle ...