Certain spacecraft carry altimeter instruments that can infer seafloor topography from the way ... in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between ...

Topographic or satellite maps of Earth may reveal ridges and troughs that crisscross flat plains on the ocean floor, making ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...

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 ...

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has built a 3D map of deep ocean waters as they ... denser water running along the ocean floor. Scientists say they can link this behaviour to changing ...

The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.

It has become the fifth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, with wind speeds reaching 180mph as it sweeps across the ...

Researchers say that two rivers merged some 89,000 years ago and gave the mightiest peak in the Himalayas a huge growth spurt ...

The last time Tampa Bay was hit by a major hurricane was 1921, when just a few hundred people lived in sparsely developed ...

Once the wave approaches the shore, it builds in height. The topography of the coastline and the ocean floor will influence the size of the wave. There may be more than one wave and the succeeding ...

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy ...