Though ship-based sounding has mapped some areas of the ocean floor in higher resolution, researchers have used SWOT data to create a detailed new map of the seafloor, including thousands of previously undetected small seamounts.
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Swedish Icebreaker Is the First to Dig Into Greenland’s Remote Victoria Fjord
Data collected aboard Oden will shed light on the dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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New Seafloor Map Only 25% Done, with 6 Years to Go
Beneath the waves, the vast majority of the ocean is unknown. Seabed 2030 is using cutting-edge technologies to fill in the bathymetric blanks and fully map the seafloor.
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Mysterious Seafloor Pits May Be Made on Porpoise
Some shallow seafloor depressions off the coast of Germany that look like those associated with methane might instead be the work of porpoises.
