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This seabed mapping is the most detailed ever made
Researchers have discovered thousands of abyssal hills and underwater volcanoes previously invisible. Until now, most underwater surveys were based on satellite altimetry. This technique involves ...
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Satellites map Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail
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. A new satellite has mapped ...
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Satellite Gives Ultra-Detailed Glimpse of Sea Floor
Beautiful, no? And also useful. Photo: NASA, SWOT She and her team were particularly interested in mapping smaller abyssal hills (parallel ridges on the seafloor) and volcanoes previously ...
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NASA makes first-of-its-kind discovery in the ocean floor: It’s like life-hunting in other planets
Their studies have so far concentrated on seamounts, abyssal hills, and continental margins—the region where continental and oceanic crust meet. Since these parallel ridges, which are the result of ...